Crossword clues for ruggedness
ruggedness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rugged \Rug"ged\, a. [See Rug, n.]
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Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.
The rugged bark of some broad elm.
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Not neat or regular; uneven.
His well-proportioned beard made rough and rugged.
--Shak. Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy. ``The rugged Russian bear.''
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Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.
Neither melt nor endear him, but leave him as hard, rugged, and unconcerned as ever.
--South. Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
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Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like.
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
--Dryden. Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc. ``Sleek o'er your rugged looks.''
--Shak.Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
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Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
Syn: Rough; uneven; wrinkled; cragged; coarse; rude; harsh; hard; crabbed; severe; austere; surly; sour; frowning; violent; boisterous; tumultuous; turbulent; stormy; tempestuous; inclement. [1913 Webster] -- Rug"ged*ly, adv. -- Rug"ged*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being rugged, or degree to which something is rugged.
WordNet
Usage examples of "ruggedness".
Masculine and virile, he was handsome with a dangerous kind of fascination about him because of the ruggedness of his features.
Except for his ruggedness, there was nothing about the older man that reminded Jacquie of his autocratic son.
During the last ten days, she had become familiar with the unending ruggedness of the landscape, but with that familiarity had come a subconscious The Master Fiddler contempt for its silent warning.
Of all the men who relied on their ruggedness to carry them through, Brennon was the most wide open, the most erratic.
His exquisite smile and twinkling brown eyes that exuded ruggedness and softness were a balm to her wounded spirit.
Rocks and trees and natural ruggedness all around, and some ten or a dozen acres of clear, cold, beautiful water, with little brooks and springs running into it, and a brook running out on the opposite shore that would have to grow considerably before it would be fit for mill-turning.
Indefinite periods of celibacy notwithstanding, he was all man ruggedness incarnate.
With glass and granite sculpture a gravel surface would be very evocative of the ruggedness of the Norwegian landscape.
The cloven valleys of the lower world swam in a tinted mist which veiled the ruggedness of their crags and ribs and ragged forests, and turned all the forbidding region into a soft and rich and sensuous paradise.
And if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul, much more did his far-away domestic memories of his young Cape wife and child, tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature, and open him still further to those latent influences which, in some honest-hearted men, restrain the gush of dare-devil daring, so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fishery.
The eyes were of a clear, choleric blue, and the face, which was almost feminine in its contours, was made manly by a certain ruggedness and fire in its regard.
Not in three months could a ninetypound survivor of two attacks of pneumonia develop sufficient ruggedness to live through an Oregon winter in the open.
Capri, every cleft and scar and jutting rock discernible through the pellucid air, every minutest ruggedness casting its clear-cut shadow.
When he lifted his head you might see that, notwithstanding the ruggedness of his face, he was a good looking man, with strong, well-proportioned features, in which, even on Sundays, when he scrubbed his face unmercifully, there would still remain lines suggestive of ingrained rosin and heelball.
Couches of purple, and services of gold, the most exquisite viands, and the blandishments of enticing beauty, charms of which the ruggedness of pastoral life has not so much as the idea, all these are circled within my walls.