rigorous
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- rigourous (misspelling, or rare, archaic)
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, from Late Latin rigorosus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rigorous (comparative more rigorous, superlative most rigorous)
- Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; 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.
Usage notesEdit
Although British English has rigour vs. American English rigor, rigorous is spelled thus in all varieties of English.
SynonymsEdit
- (showing, causing or favoring rigor): painstaking, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous
- (severe; intense): harsh, strict; see also Thesaurus:stern
AntonymsEdit
- (severe; intense): arbitrary, capricious, whimsical
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
showing, causing or favoring rigor
severe; intense
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