rigorous

English

Alternative forms

• rigourous (non‐standard)

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  rigorosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

rigorous (comparative more rigorous, superlative most rigorous)

1. 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.

2. 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

• Template:Sense arbitrary, capricious, whimsical

Derived terms

• nonrigorous
• overrigorous
• rigorously
• rigorousness
• unrigorous

Related terms

• rigid
• rigour

Translations

showing, causing or favoring rigor

• Catalan: rigorós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 严苛的, 严谨的

• Dutch: rigoureus (nl)
• Finnish: ankara (fi) (strict); perinpohjainen (fi), perusteellinen (fi) (thorough)
• French: rigoureux (fr)
• German: streng (de), rigoros (de)
• Latin: rigorosus m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rigorøs

  Nynorsk: rigorøs

• Portuguese: rigoroso (pt)
• Romanian: riguros (ro)
• Russian: стро́гий (ru) (strógij), то́чный (ru) (tóčnyj)
• Spanish: riguroso (es)
• Turkish: dakik (tr), dikkatli (tr), özenli (tr), sıkı (tr), titiz (tr)

severe; intense

• Catalan: rigorós (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 严酷的

• Danish: intens
• Dutch: rigoureus (nl)
• Finnish: ankara (fi)
• French: rigoureux (fr)
• German: rauh (de)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rigorøs

  Nynorsk: rigorøs

• Portuguese: rigoroso (pt)
• Russian: суро́вый (ru) (suróvyj)
• Spanish: riguroso (es)
• Turkish: sert (tr), şiddetli (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} rigoureus (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} rigoros (de), ^{(please verify)} kräftig (de), ^{(please verify)} gewaltig (de)
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• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} şiddetli (tr)

Further reading

• “rigorous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “rigorous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.