robust
adjUK /ɹəʊˈbʌst/ · CA, US /ɹoʊˈbʌst/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.
9 senses
- 1Able to withstand adverse conditions.
- 2Evincing strength and health; strong; (often…
- 3Requiring strength or vigor.
- 4Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given…
- 5Rough; rude.
- 6Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to…
- 7Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user…
- 8Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about…
- 9Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built…
Able to withstand adverse conditions.
Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
- He was a robust man of six feet four.
- robust health
2 more examples
- A robust wall was put up.
- She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
Requiring strength or vigor.
- robust employment
Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
- robust findings
- robust proof
2 more examples
- robust explanation
- robust lesson
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.2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
Systems engineering
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
Anthropology, Biology, History, Human sciences, Natural sciences, Paleontology, Sciences, Zoology Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.
- Derived terms
- bias-robust, heterokurtosis-robust, heteroscedasticity-robust, nonrobust, robust association of massive baryonic objects, RAMBO, robust australopithecine, robust blacksmelt, robust capuchin monkey, robust Christianity, robustful, robustic, robustify, robustious, robustity, robustize, robustly, robustness, unrobust
- Related terms
- corroborate, corroboration, roborant, roborate, roboration, roborative, roborean, roboreous, robusta