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Robust

//ɹəʊˈbʌst// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to withstand adverse conditions.
  2. 2
    Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.

    "He was a robust man of six feet four."

  3. 3
    Requiring strength or vigor.

    "robust employment"

  4. 4
    Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.

    "robust findings"

  5. 5
    Rough; rude. euphemistic

    "As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top."

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  1. 6
    Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  2. 7
    Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  3. 8
    Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
  4. 9
    Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.
Adjective
  1. 1
    rough and crude wordnet
  2. 2
    sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction wordnet
  3. 3
    strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity wordnet
  4. 4
    marked by richness and fullness of flavor wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

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