robust.
Able to withstand adverse conditions.
Meaning & usage
Able to withstand adverse conditions.
Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
He was a robust man of six feet four.
robust health
Requiring strength or vigor.
robust employment
Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
robust findings
robust proof
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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin rōbus Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin rōbustuslbor. English robust Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.
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