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Synonyms for robust

  • adjective

Most common

strong stout vigorous hardy

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Adjective

1. Stout

strong, stout, vigorous, hardy, stalwart, hearty, powerful, full-bodied, rugged, healthy, rich, tough, forceful, beefy informal, hard, virile, brawny, sound, burly, muscular, sinewy, mighty

Other

sturdy, steady, cast-iron, blunt, iron, rude, bull, robustful rare, robustic dated

Antonyms

weak, fragile, feeble

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Able to withstand adverse conditions.

Related words

Word family
robustful robustic robustify robustious robustity robustize robustly robustness

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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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example sentences

  • hardy Karl mentioned the English author Thomas Hardy.
  • vigorous The vigorous man is engaged in diverse activities.
  • stout He looked small beside my father's stout body.
  • stalwart He was a stalwart defender of the role of philosophy in education.
  • steady Jack and Betty have been going steady for a month.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
robustrising
hardysteady
vigorousfalling
stoutsteady
stalwartrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
hard1, rich1, iron2, bull1, rude1
5 letters
sound1, tough1, hardy2, blunt1, stout1, burly2, beefy2
6 letters
strong1, steady2, mighty2, rugged2, hearty2, sturdy2, virile2, brawny2, sinewy3
7 letters
healthy2
8 letters
powerful3, muscular3, vigorous3, forceful2, stalwart2, robustic
9 letters
robustful

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (iron2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
robuste
Italiano
robusto
Español
robusto
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