rigour
Plural: rigours
Noun
- The quality of being extremely thorough, careful, or strict.
- the quality of being valid and rigorous
- something hard to endure
- excessive sternness
- Severity or strictness.
- Harshness, as of climate.
- A trembling or shivering response.
- Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
- Shrewd questioning.
- Higher level of difficulty.
- Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).
Examples
- He approached every Scrabble game with the RIGOUR of a seasoned chess master.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.
Synonyms
asperity, cogency, grimness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness, validity
Scrabble Score: 7
rigour: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrigour: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rigour: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary