robust
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bʌst adjective
1.
strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
2.
strongly or stoutly built: his robust frame.
3.
suited to or requiring bodily strength or endurance: robust exercise.
4.
rough, rude, or boisterous: robust drinkers and dancers.
5.
rich and full-bodied: the robust flavor of freshly brewed coffee.
Origin:
1540–50; < Latin rōbustus oaken, hard, strong, equivalent to rōbus-, stem of rōbur oak, strength + -tus adj. suffix
1540–50; < Latin rōbustus oaken, hard, strong, equivalent to rōbus-, stem of rōbur oak, strength + -tus adj. suffix
Related forms
ro·bust·ly, adverb
ro·bust·ness, noun
un·ro·bust, adjective
un·ro·bust·ly, adverb
un·ro·bust·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. powerful, sound. 4. coarse, rambunctious.
1. powerful, sound. 4. coarse, rambunctious.
Antonyms
1. feeble. 2. weak.
1. feeble. 2. weak.
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World English Dictionary
robust (rəʊˈbʌst, ˈrəʊbʌst) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | strong in constitution; hardy; vigorous |
| 2. | sturdily built: a robust shelter |
| 3. | requiring or suited to physical strength: a robust sport |
| 4. | (esp of wines) having a rich full-bodied flavour |
| 5. | rough or boisterous |
| 6. | (of thought, intellect, etc) straightforward and imbued with common sense |
| [C16: from Latin rōbustus, from rōbur an oak, strength] | |
| ro'bustly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
robust
1549, from L. robustus "strong and hardy," originally "oaken," from robur, robus "hard timber, strength," also "a special kind of oak," named for its reddish heartwood, from L. ruber "red" (cf. robigo "rust"). Robustious (1548) was a common form in 17c. (cf. "Hamlet" iii.2); it fell from use by mid-18c.,
but was somewhat revived by mid-19c. antiquarian writers.
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Slang Dictionary
robust
adj. Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment. One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail. Compare smart, oppose brittle.
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Computing Dictionary
robust definition
Said of a system that has demonstrated an ability to recover gracefully from the whole range of exceptional inputs and situations in a given environment. One step below bulletproof. Carries the additional connotation of elegance in addition to just careful attention to detail. Compare smart, opposite: brittle.
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Example sentences
But there is another pedagogically and academically robust concept of education, that of a seamless system.
We owe our robust health in this country largely as a result, directly or indirectly, to the use of fossil fuels.
And if economics as a broad discipline deserves a robust defence, so does the free-market paradigm.
It isn't going to instantaneously scale up to a robust multiprocessing data path and achieve high instructions per clock.
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