robust

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

robust (comparative more robust or (uncommon) robuster, superlative most robust or (uncommon) robustest)

  1. Able to withstand adverse conditions.
    Synonym: sturdy
    Antonym: fragile
  2. Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
    He was a robust man of six feet four.
    robust health
    A robust wall was put up.
    • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
      She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
  3. Requiring strength or vigor.
    robust employment
  4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
  5. (euphemistic) Rough; rude.
    • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
      As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.
  6. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
  7. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
  8. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
  9. (chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rōbustus. First attested in c. 1400.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)

  1. robust (evincing strength and health)
    Synonyms: fort, vigorós

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References

  1. ^ robust”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

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German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

robust (strong nominative masculine singular robuster, comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)

  1. robust

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Derived terms

Further reading

  • robust” in Duden online
  • robust” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin rōbustus.

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

  1. robust, sturdy

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin rōbustus.

Adjective

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

  1. robust, sturdy

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French robuste, from Latin rōbustus.

Adjective

robust m or n (feminine singular robustă, masculine plural robuști, feminine and neuter plural robuste)

  1. robust

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite robust robustă robuști robuste
definite robustul robusta robuștii robustele
genitive-
dative
indefinite robust robuste robuști robuste
definite robustului robustei robuștilor robustelor

Swedish

Adjective

robust (comparative robustare, superlative robustast)

  1. robust

Declension

Inflection of robust
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular robust robustare robustast
neuter singular robust robustare robustast
plural robusta robustare robustast
masculine plural2 robuste robustare robustast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 robuste robustare robustaste
all robusta robustare robustaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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