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rigorous

[ rig-er-uhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline:
rigorous laws.
Synonyms: unyielding, stiff, inflexible, hard, austere, stern
Antonyms: soft, flexible
severely exact or accurate; precise:
rigorous research.
Synonyms: finical, demanding
Antonyms: inaccurate
(of weather or climate) uncomfortably severe or harsh; extremely inclement.
Synonyms: bitter, hard
Antonyms: mild
Logic, Mathematics. logically valid.

rigorous

/ ˈrɪɡərəs /

characterized by or proceeding from rigour; harsh, strict, or severe
rigorous discipline
severely accurate; scrupulous
rigorous book-keeping
(esp of weather) extreme or harsh
maths logic (of a proof) making the validity of the successive steps completely explicit

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Medieval Latin rigōrōsus; rigor, -ous

But Olds did more than build Nurse-Family Partnership; he did the rigorous evaluation to prove it would work.

All of this requires rigorous self-examination: When you can be anything you want to be, what do you want to be?

She had all the pressure of people in the spotlight and was unbelievably rigorous about keeping it real.

Turning the tide of the epidemic, he says, will require “rigorous contact, tracing, and quarantining.”

They are tight exercises in genre filmmaking, both formally rigorous and emotionally involving.

It is evident that the literal and rigorous practice of the Divine morality of the Christians would lead nations to ruin.

It is probable that parental and filial affection (piets) made this hardship less rigorous than it now seems to us (32, 33).

It has also been suggested that custom and piets had made this condition less rigorous than it seems to us.

Winston is rigorous in requiring what is due to his position—is, in some respects, a fearful formalist.

See p. 15 for a more rigorous statement concerning the volume.

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