robust

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɹəʊˈbʌst/
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/ɹəʊˈbʌst/ · /ɹəˈbʌst/ · /ɹoʊˈbʌst/ · /ɹəʉˈbɐst/ · /ɹəˈbɐst/ · /ɹɐʉˈbɐst/ · /rɵˈbəsʈ/ · /ˈrobəsʈ/

Definition of robust

9 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Able to withstand adverse conditions.
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adj

  1. Able to withstand adverse conditions.
  2. Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
    “He was a robust man of six feet four.”
    “robust health”
    “A robust wall was put up.”
    “She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.”
  3. Requiring strength or vigor.
    “robust employment”
  4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
    “robust findings”
    “robust proof”
    “robust explanation”
    “robust lesson”
  5. (euphemistic)Rough; rude.
    “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.”
  6. Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  7. Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  8. Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
  9. Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

Anagrams of robust

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