robust

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  1. adjective Full of health and strength; vigorous.
  2. adjective Powerfully built; sturdy. See Synonyms at healthy.
  3. adjective Requiring or suited to physical strength or endurance: robust labor.

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  • This worship of the robust is the fundamental fact of all Chesterton's work. —  G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
  • His constitution had never been robust, and he died of consumption a week after we landed. —  The World of Ice
  • All of these had been strong and robust, and they died after two days' illness One of those who were attacked was Edith's little friend, Arnalooa, and just before the ten Esquimaux died, Edith had gone down to the camp with a present of beads to console her. —  Ungava
  • He was ruddy and robust, and seemed likely to impose himself anywhere, when the time came. —  On the Stairs
  • Some is "robust," even "bulletproof." —  The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin rōbustus, from rōbur, rōbus, oak, strength; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French (and F.) robuste = Spanish Portuguese Italian robusto, from Latin robustus, strong, from robur, Old Latin robus (robor-), hardness, strength, a hard wood, oak, an oak-tree; = Sanskrit rabhas, violence, force, from √ rabh, seize.
 

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