rigorously

[ rig-er-uhs-lee ]

adverb

1. in a rigidly consistent or uncompromising way; very strictly:

   Access to data on the website is rigorously controlled by user account permissions and protected by passwords.

2. in a way that is severely exacting, accurate, careful, and thorough; to a high standard:

   Prior to publication, all content is rigorously reviewed by peer experts and members of the editorial committee.

3. Logic, Mathematics. in a way that is logically valid:

   Can anyone give me a more rigorously written proof of this theorem?

Other Words From

• o·ver·rig·or·ous·ly adverb
• sem·i·rig·or·ous·ly adverb
• un·rig·or·ous·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of rigorously¹

First recorded in 1400–50; rigorous ( def ) + -ly ( def )

Example Sentences

Palmer agreed, saying a more rigorous audit of the Detroit results was all she had wanted all along.

From Washington Post

Company co-founder and chief sustainability officer Sam Ruben points out that kind of heat retention is important when trying to meet rigorous environmental standards, especially in California.

From Popular-Science

In the realm of startups, she’s concerned that companies are making claims not supported by rigorous science.

From Fortune

Our forecasts should also do well by the more rigorous methods we use to evaluate them.

From FiveThirtyEight

After a decades-long dry spell, in 2000, Griffiths and Richards—who had since moved to Johns Hopkins—were the first of many to get a green light and funds to resume rigorous psilocybin studies.

From Popular-Science

For good reason—his sentences are enormous and repetitive, and his subjects are rigorously examined from all angles.

From The Daily Beast

To show how it all plays out, Rosin spent many months reporting—and, indeed, The End of Men is rigorously researched.

From The Daily Beast

The Paul campaign has rigorously organized its volunteers to attend the mass precinct meetings that took place all over Georgia.

From The Daily Beast

According to reports, Amiri was detained at the airport in Jeddah and rigorously questioned by Saudi security.

From The Daily Beast

In such a community the fragile safeguard of an oath is, from sheer helplessness, the more rigorously demanded.

From Project Gutenberg

Amiable and wise Eugenia, examine rigorously the ideas that, by your own desire, I shall hereafter present you.

From Project Gutenberg

Napoleon read the English newspapers every day in French, and M. de Bausset says the translation was rigorously exact.

From Project Gutenberg

My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and many such details.

From Project Gutenberg

I cannot refer to what happened in the night; it is too awful, and I have to keep my thoughts rigorously away from it.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• anxiously
• attentively
• conscientiously
• correctly
• deliberately
• delicately
• discreetly
• faithfully
• fully
• gingerly
• laboriously
• meticulously
• precisely
• prudently
• scrupulously
• thoroughly
• thoughtfully
• warily