robust

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/
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(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹəʉˈbɐst/, /ɹəˈbɐst/
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɹɐʉˈbɐst/, /ɹəˈbɐst/
Rhymes: -ʌst
Hyphenation: ro‧bust

robust (comparative more robust or (uncommon) robuster, superlative most robust or (uncommon) robustest)

Able to withstand adverse conditions.
Synonym: sturdy

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

evincing strength

Albanian: ardhangët (sq)
Bulgarian: як (bg) (jak), здрав (bg) (zdrav), силен (bg) (silen)
Catalan: robust (ca)
Dutch: robuust (nl), degelijk (nl)
Finnish: jykevä (fi), vankka (fi), roteva (fi), vahva (fi), robusti (fi)
French: robuste (fr), costaud (fr)
Galician: robusto (gl), rufo (gl)
German: robust (de), widerstandsfähig (de), kräftig (de), zäh (de), herausfordernd (de), anspruchsvoll (de), grob (de), resilient (de), solide (de)
Greek: ρωμαλέος (el) (romaléos)
Hebrew: חסון (he) (chason), איתן (he) (ētán)
Hungarian: robusztus (hu), erős (hu), erőteljes (hu), masszív (hu), szilárd (hu)
Ido: robusta (io)
Indonesian: tegar (id)
Irish: urrúnta
Italian: robusto (it)
Latin: rōbustus
Macedonian: си́лен (sílen), здрав (zdrav), јак (jak), цврст (cvrst)
Malay: lasak, teguh (ms)
Maori: ruarangi, hiwa (referring to growth), whakapūioio, tōtōpū (of solid quality)
Mongolian: бөх (mn) (böx)
Norman: frîngant
Norwegian:
Bokmål: robust (no)

Nynorsk: robust
Polish: krzepki (pl), silny (pl), rozrosły, czerstwy (pl), wysportowany (pl)
Portuguese: robusto (pt)
Quechua: nanaq
Romanian: robust (ro), puternic (ro), vânjos (ro)
Russian: кре́пкий (ru) (krépkij), здоро́вый (ru) (zdoróvyj)
Scottish Gaelic: làidir
Slovene: robústen
Spanish: robusto (es)
Swedish: robust (sv)
Ukrainian: крі́пкий (uk) (krípkyj), здоро́вий (zdoróvyj)

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