Word Meanings - ROBUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

strength, a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. 1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. 2. Violent; rough; rude.

Additional info about word: ROBUST

strength, a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. 1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. 2. Violent; rough; rude. While romp-loving miss Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson. 3. Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment. Locke. Syn. -- Strong; lusty; sinewy; sturdy; muscular; hale; hearty; vigorous; forceful; sound. -- Robust, Strong. 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. Strong denotes the power of exerting great physical force. The robust man can bear heat or cold, excess or privation, and toil on through every kind of hardship; the strong man can lift a great weight, can give a heavy blow, and a hard gripe. "Robust, tough sinews bred to toil." Cowper. Then 'gan the villain wax so fierce and strong, That nothing may sustain his furious force. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROBUST)

• Athletic
• Strong
• vigorous
• powerful
• stalwart
• brawny
• muscular
• ablebodied
• lusty
• sinewy
• robust
• Brawny
• Muscular
• strong
• athletic
• herculean
• stout
• Firm
• Fast
• secure
• steadfast
• solid
• stable
• established
• rooted
• immovable
• unshaken
• sturdy
• resolute
• determined
• fixed
• decided
• attached
• Hardy
• Inured
• stout-hearted
• intrepid
• brave
• manly
• valiant
• Healthy
• Vigorous
• sound
• hale
• salubrious
• wholesome
• hearty
• healthful

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ROBUST)

• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free

Related words: (words related to ROBUST)

• STALWARTLY
  In a stalwart manner.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• STABLENESS
  The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
• ROOTCAP
  A mass of parenchym
• SOLIDUNGULA
  A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.
• DECIDER
  One who decides.
• STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
  A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.
• HEALTHFULLY
  In health; wholesomely.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• ROOTLESS
  Destitute of roots.
• VIGOROUS
  1. Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. Waller. 2. Exhibiting strength, either
• ATHLETICISM
  The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• PROOTIC; PROOETIC
  In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• STONEROOT
  A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.