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Rugged
Definitions
- 1 Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
"BY and by, after a rugged climb, we halted on the summit of a hill which commanded a far-reaching view."
- 2 Having a rug or rugs. not-comparable
- 3 Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
"Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing."
- 4 Covered with a rug. not-comparable
- 5 Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.
"His hair was light and rather thin; his face strong and rugged from exposure, and his eyes narrow and observant."
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- 6 Strong, sturdy, well-built.
"Many women and men delude themselves into thinking that only the hardest and most rugged man is attractive and to many it may be the case."
- 7 Rocky and bare of plantlife.
"As the train wound along the river valleys through western Pennsylvania the scenery grew more rugged and the painted houses of Lancaster County gave way to dirty clapboard dwellings and shack homes clinging to the mountainside."
- 8 Harsh; austere; hard character
- 9 Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous
- 10 Harsh; grating; unpleasant sounding or looking
- 11 Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
""Ah!" sighed the unimaginative Granby, and his honest, rugged face grew clouded. Pepper puffed in silence for a moment or two; then spoke."
- 12 Violent; rude; boisterous
- 13 Vigorous; robust; hardy
""Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength...""
- 14 Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
"Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red."
- 1 sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring wordnet
- 2 very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution wordnet
- 3 topographically very uneven wordnet
- 4 having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface wordnet
- 1 simple past and past participle of rug form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From Middle English rugged, roggyd, ruggyd, derived from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft, shagginess”), equivalent to rug (“rough, woollen material”) + -ed. Compare Old Swedish ruggoter (“wrinkled”), Swedish rugga (“to roughen”), Swedish ruggig (“shaggy”), Icelandic rögg (“shagginess”), Old Norse raggaðr (“tufted”), dialectal Danish raggad (“shaggy”).
From rug + -ed.
From rug + -ed.
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