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Webster 1913 Edition
Rigorous
1.
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless;
as, a
rigorous
officer of justice; a rigorous
execution of law; a rigorous
definition or demonstration.He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock
With
With
rigorous hands
. Shakespeare
We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their
rigorous
unity. De Quincey.
2.
Severe; intense; inclement;
as, a
. rigorous
winter3.
Violent.
[Obs.]
“Rigorous uproar.” Spenser.
Syn. – Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact.
– Rig′or-ous-ly
, adv.
Rig′or-ous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rigorous
RIG'OROUS
, a.1.
Severe; allowing no abatement or mitigation; as a rigorous officer of justice.2.
Severe; exact; strict; without abatement or relaxation; as a rigorous execution of law; an enforcement of rigorous discipline.3.
Exact; strict; scrupulously accurate; as a rigorous definition or demonstration.4.
Severe; very cold; as a rigorous winter.Definition 2024
rigorous
rigorous
English
Alternative forms
- rigourous (non‐standard)
Adjective
rigorous (comparative more rigorous, superlative most rigorous)
- Showing, causing, or favoring rigour; scrupulously accurate or strict
- a rigorous officer of justice
- a rigorous execution of law
- a rigorous inspection
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- Severe; intense
- a rigorous winter.
- Violent.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:meticulous
Antonyms
Translations
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate
Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter
Violent