Robust
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English
Adjective
Robust (comparative robuster, superlative robustest)
- Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
- He was a robust man of six feet four.
- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
- She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
- Violent; rough; rude.
- Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
- Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety;
- (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
- Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
- Kent Beck
- Grady Booch
- Fred Brooks
- Barry Boehm
- Ward Cunningham
- Ole-Johan Dahl
- Tom DeMarco
- Martin Fowler
- C. A. R. Hoare
- Watts Humphrey
- Michael A. Jackson
- Ivar Jacobson
- Craig Larman
- James Martin
- Bertrand Meyer
- David Parnas
- Winston W. Royce
- Colette Rolland
- James Rumbaugh
- Niklaus Wirth
- Edward Yourdon
- Victor Basili
- (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
Notes
- "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".
Derived terms
See also
- 15px Robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Robust statistics
Adverbs for Robust
sturdily; splendidly; stoutly; healthily; vigorously; wholesomely; magnificently; enviably; admirably; stockily; brawnily; physically ; amazingly; heartily.
Thesaurus
able-bodied, active, acute, aggressive, animated, athletic, beefy, booming, bouncing, brawny, brisk, doughty, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, fit, flavorful, flush, forceful, forcible, forcy, fruity, full of pep, full-blooded, full-bodied, full-strength, go-go, gutsy, gutty, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hardy, healthy, hearty, hefty, husky, impetuous, incisive, intense, iron-hard, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, mettlesome, mighty, muscular, nervy, nutty, obstinate, peppy, potent, powerful, prospering, prosperous, puissant, pungent, red-blooded, rich, roaring, robustious, robustuous, rude, rugged, sapid, sinewy, smacking, snappy, sound, spanking, spirited, stalwart, staunch, steely, stout, strapping, strenuous, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, take-charge, take-over, thrifty, thriving, tough, trenchant, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivid, well-knit, zestful, zesty, zip, zippy
Etymology
From Latin rōbustus < rōbur, rōbus (“strength", "hard timber", "oak”).
Translations
evincing strengthAnagrams
German
Adjective
Robust
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