robust

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbʌst/
• Rhymes: -ʌst
• Hyphenation: ro‧bust

robust (comparative robuster or more robust, superlative robustest or most robust) (see usage notes)

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

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:

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

2. Violent; rough; rude.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

3. Requiring strength or vigor.

   robust employment

4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
8. (chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.

• "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".

• robusta

• robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• brotus, or bust, turbos

Borrowed from Latin rōbustus. First attested in c. 1400.[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈβust]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ruˈbust]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [roˈbust]

robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)

1. robust (evincing strength and health)

   Synonyms: fort, vigorós

• robustament
• robustesa

• “robust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “robust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “robust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁoˈbʊst/

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• Hyphenation: ro‧bust

robust (strong nominative masculine singular robuster, comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)

1. robust

• Robustheit

• “robust” in Duden online
• “robust” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Latin rōbustus.

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

• “robust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin rōbustus.

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

• “robust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French robuste, from Latin rōbustus.

robust m or n (feminine singular robustă, masculine plural robuști, feminine and neuter plural robuste)

1. robust

robust (comparative robustare, superlative robustast)

1. robust

• robust in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• robust in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• robust in Svensk ordbok (SO)