rigorous
English
Alternative forms
- rigourous (non‐standard)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
rigorous (comparative more rigorous, superlative most rigorous)
- Showing, causing, or favoring rigour; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
- a rigorous officer of justice
- a rigorous execution of law
- a rigorous inspection
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- Severe; intense.
- a rigorous winter.
Synonyms
- (showing, causing or favoring rigor): painstaking, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous
- Template:Sense harsh, strict; see also Thesaurus:stern
Antonyms
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Translations
showing, causing or favoring rigor
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severe; intense
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Further reading
- “rigorous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “rigorous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.