robust

Adjective

• Strong and healthy; sturdy and well-built.
• sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction
  • "a robust body"
  • "a robust perennial"

Adjective Satellite

• marked by richness and fullness of flavor
  • "a robust claret"
  • "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"
• strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity
  • "the experiment yielded robust results"
  • "a robust faith"
• rough and crude
  • "a robust tale"

Adj

• Able to withstand adverse conditions.
• Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
• Requiring strength or vigor.
• Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
• Rough; rude.
• Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
• Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
• Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
• Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.

Examples

• A robust wall was put up.
• He was a robust man of six feet four.
• His defense was ROBUST, leaving no openings for big Words With Friends plays.
• robust employment
• robust health

Synonyms

full-bodied, racy, rich, sturdy

Antonyms

frail, fragile

Related Words

robusta, ROBUSTLY