Meaning

9 senses
  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

    robust, widerstandsfähig, kräftig

    кре́пкийkrépkij, здоро́выйzdoróvyj

    крі́пкийkrípkyj, здоро́вийzdoróvyj

  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

  5. (euphemistic)Rough; rude.

    rough and crude

  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.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. He is a robust young man.

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  2. Most heathers are small and robust.

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  3. Males are more robust than females.

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  4. Cardboard is more robust than paper.

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  5. A big man is not always robust.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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evincing strength:
Deutsch
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Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

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