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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
robust
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Nor indeed were many unmodified humans nearly as robust as the cadets had long since become.
▪ Britten paints the sea in colors as robust as the authentic sets and costumes are gray and stony sepulchral.
▪ Asquith made a speech of forty minutes which Benson described to himself as robust but dull, and which reads dully.
▪ Credit derivatives are only as robust as the counterparty in the trade.
▪ Mr Browning, she saw, was as robust as his wife was pitifully weak.
less
▪ Is it possible, they asked, that nuclei from two-cell embryo are simply less robust than nuclei from zygotes?
▪ Jet-age airliners are also less robust in the field.
more
▪ Mozart's heroic brand of oratory is very different from Beethoven's much more robust variety.
▪ Some of the more robust products offer specialized services for businesses, such as direct payroll deposit and cash concentration.
▪ The new monument is more robust than the original and also far larger.
▪ It differs from the preceding varieties by having a more robust growth.
▪ Remember as well that a hardwood frame is much more robust than a softwood equivalent.
▪ Her brother Alex, two years older and much more robust in temperament, was her bulwark against the world.
▪ Although of very traditional design and similar in appearance to Nos. 1-35, they were of rather more robust construction.
▪ It is more robust in form than many faces, which will help it withstand facsimile transmission.
most
▪ This will flatten the stomach, not to mention all but the most robust of deckchairs.
▪ It is the most robust variety, but readily grows above the water surface even in the aquarium.
▪ At this time and prior to the fatal evening, Amy Robsart had enjoyed the most robust of health.
▪ Yet the one to one correspondence between countries and currencies is one of the most robust regularities of monetary economics.
▪ Compact Flash memory is about the most robust digital film.
very
▪ It's easy to spawn and usually very robust.
▪ The human race is also very robust.
▪ These protectors are compatible with most cylinder mounting kits, very robust and economic in service.
▪ The wider tape gives better quality reproduction and the machines are very robust - an important consideration for the classroom.
▪ The shell is very robust, and inside there are very few, powerful hinge teeth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I plead not guilty," Zhivkov stated in a robust voice.
▪ He was a robust little boy, with curly dark hair.
▪ Less robust persons might need a siesta, but Eva worked right through from dawn till dusk.
▪ Mrs. Lutu is a robust, energetic mother of four.
▪ Paul travelled north to visit his parents, who he found less robust than before.
▪ Retail sales have been robust this year.
▪ The chair was more robust than it looked.
▪ Though he was over seventy, he was still robust and active.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Commendable to see such robust energy at work.
▪ Compact Flash memory is about the most robust digital film.
▪ He wore a tweed jacket over a dark blue turtle-necked jersey and he had a robust mod mustache.
▪ In contrast this very basic technique is robust and computationally simple.
▪ Life on Earth is enormously robust.
▪ Liz had a more robust notion of the self, and took another line on the individual's place in the structure.
▪ On the night the estimation within the political class was that Gore had consolidated a robust if narrow lead.
▪ Use robust plants, rocks and bogwood, and include some floating plants for this surface swimmer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Robust

Robust \Ro*bust"\, a. [L. robustus oaken, hard, strong, fr. robur strength, a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. robuste.]

  1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

  2. Violent; rough; rude.

    While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust.
    --Thomson.

  3. Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.
    --Locke.

    Syn: Strong; lusty; sinewy; sturdy; muscular; hale; hearty; vigorous; forceful; sound.

    Usage: Robust, Strong. Robust means, literally, made of oak, and hence implies great compactness and toughness of muscle, connected with a thick-set frame and great powers of endurance. Strong denotes the power of exerting great physical force. The robust man can bear heat or cold, excess or privation, and toil on through every kind of hardship; the strong man can lift a great weight, can give a heavy blow, and a hard gripe. ``Robust, tough sinews bred to toil.''
    --Cowper.

    Then 'gan the villain wax so fierce and strong, That nothing may sustain his furious force.
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
robust

1540s, from Middle French robuste (14c.) and directly from Latin robustus "strong and hardy," literally "as strong as oak," originally "oaken," from robur, robus "hard timber, strength," also "a special kind of oak," named for its reddish heartwood, from Latin ruber "red" (related to robigo "rust"), from PIE *reudh- (see red (adj.1)). Related: Robustly; robustness. Robustious (1540s) was a common form in 17c. (see "Hamlet" iii.2); it fell from use by mid-18c., but was somewhat revived by mid-19c. antiquarian writers.

Wiktionary
robust

a. 1 evince strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. 2 violent; rough; rude.

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WordNet
robust

  1. adj. physically strong [ant: frail]

  2. marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee" [syn: full-bodied, rich]

  3. strong enough to withstand intellectual challenge; "the experiment yielded robust results"; "a robust faith"

  4. rough and crude; "a robust tale"

Usage examples of "robust".

In physique he closely resembled the Aliansa, being tall and robust and with a face less humanoid than the aborigines of the Mire and Mountain.

Tabenne was the well-known signal which assembled several thousand robust and determined monks, who, for the most part, had been the peasants of the adjacent country.

But young men are less likely to think of death, and Amado Ortega was just thirty-eight, and in such robust health that he had never visited a doctor.

For a while there was some robust debating, the Castellans being pilloried as dictatorial and even war-mongering, while the Ploughers were labelled as naive appeasers and cowards and quite indifferent to the fate of the people who worked in the forestry trade.

Take a doctor with me sometimes, because Bibbs never WAS so robust, you might say.

Some of the proposals brought up interesting problems, and several strong ones in a row made them aware of just how amazing contemporary work in bioinformatics was, and what some of the potential benefits for human health might be, if all this were to come together and make a robust biotechnology.

Deeping had not been responsible for Albert Caddie or his name, the robust voice of Mrs.

He was a wild-looking animal, robust and muscular, who weighed seventeen pounds in his winter coat, which had just now molted enough to reveal stout, cobby legs and devastating paws.

The miserable man did not know what courage was, but he was more robust than myself, and he had, doubtless, taken in provisions before leaving the prison.

This doctor was an imposing man, possessed of handsome, pitch-black side-whiskers and of a fresh, robust doctress, ate fresh apples in the morning, and kept his mouth extraordinarily clean by rinsing it every morning for nearly three quarters of an hour and polishing his teeth with five different sorts of brushes.

Aine, looking more robust now that she was warm and a little drier, jumped in to console her in a way that was so touching it brought a sting to my own eyes.

It would be a pleasant thing if you had the robust health of the elasmosaurus, but what a wonderful thing it would be if that mighty engine had your intelligence.

I have known all my life, the falseness in a hearty laugh, the envy and the malice in a jesting word, the naked hatred in a jeering eye, and all the damned, warped, poisonous constrictions of the heart--the horrible fear and cowardice and cruelty, the naked shame, the hypocrisy, and the pretence, that are masked there behind the full hearty tones, the robust manliness of the Hortons of this earth .

A few wooden benches fastened against the gaily-colored walls, about ten stools, two oak chests on tin mugs, a large long table where twenty guests could sit comfortably, composed the furniture, which looked in perfect keeping with the solid house and robust inmates.

It has robust translation invariance, because it is invariant under any transformation that is monotonic.