robust
robuster
Use robust to describe a person or thing that is healthy and strong, or strongly built. This adjective also commonly describes food or drink: a robust wine has a rich, strong flavor.
If your school has a robust sports program, it means they offer lots of different kinds of sports and that a lot of kids participate. If you have a robust speaking voice, it means you have a voice that's deep and loud and strong. Robust is from Latin robustus "of oak, hard, strong," from robur "oak tree, strength."
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sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction“a robust body”“a robust perennial”
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Synonyms:
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rugged
sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
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healthy
having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
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beefy, buirdly, burly, husky, strapping
muscular and heavily built
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big-boned
having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh
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big-chested, chesty
marked by a large or well-developed chest
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big-shouldered, broad-shouldered, square-shouldered
having broad shoulders
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cast-iron, iron
extremely robust
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hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy
having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
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hardy
able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions
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half-hardy
(of plants) requiring protection from frost
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heavy-armed
having massive arms
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square-built
broad and solidly built
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vigorous
strong and active physically or mentally
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strong
having strength or power greater than average or expected
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frail
physically weak
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delicate
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
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debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly
lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
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light-boned
having a bone structure that is light with respect to the surrounding flesh
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weak
wanting in physical strength
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rugged
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strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity“the experiment yielded robust results”“a robust faith”
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strong
having strength or power greater than average or expected
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strong
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marked by richness and fullness of flavor“a robust claret”“the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee”
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synonyms:
full-bodied, racy, rich
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tasty
pleasing to the sense of taste
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tasty
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rough and crude“a robust tale”
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unrefined
(used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth
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unrefined
Vocabulary lists containing robust
When eleven-year-old Tokunbo Marshall moves with her mother into a Harlem brownstone, she must adjust to an extended family that includes three new sisters who see everything in life as a possible project in their self-designed education.
After an ogress is accused of abducting the children of Stone-in-the-Glen, a group of orphans try to save her and convince the townspeople of her good nature.
As the oldest of five sisters and the only one who can legally drive, Odilia must lead a supernatural odyssey from the Rio Grande to Mexico to return the body of a drowned man.
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