robust

comparative more robust · comparative uncommon robuster · superlative most robust · superlative uncommon robustest

1. Able to withstand adverse conditions.

   Synonyms: sturdy · Antonyms: fragile

2. Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.

   robust health

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   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   A robust wall was put up.

   She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

   1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

3. Requiring strength or vigor.

   robust employment

4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.

   robust proof

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   robust findings

   robust explanation

   robust lesson

5. euphemisticRough; 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

6. systems engineeringDesigned or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
7. computingResistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
8. mathematicsNot greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
9. anthropologyOf an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.