Dictionary

rigorous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English rigorous, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman rigoreus, derived from Late Latin rigōrōsus (stiff, rigid; inflexible). By surface analysis, rigor + -ous.

Meanings

1. Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
   • a rigorous inspection
   • a rigorous officer of justice
   • 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. 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
   • a rigorous execution of law
   • From this time onwards, the Westinghouse air brake literally went from strength to strength, and was triumphantly justified in the course of rigorous trials, both on the Pennsylvania Railroad and at Newark-on-Trent in this country. 1946 November and December, “George Westinghouse, 1846-1914”, in Railway Magazine, page 375:
2. Severe; intense.
   • a rigorous winter

Forms

Antonyms

arbitrary (antonym(s) of “severe, intense”) · whimsical (antonym(s) of “severe, intense”) · capricious (antonym(s) of “severe, intense”)

Deriveds

rigorously · rigorousness · unrigorous · nonrigorous · overrigorous

Synonyms

harsh (severe; intense) · painstaking · scrupulous · strict

Translations (51)

tr sıkı (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · fi perusteellinen (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · ru скрупулёзный (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · de rau (severe; intense) · fi ankara (severe; intense) · tr titiz (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · ro riguros (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · es riguroso (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · bg взискателен (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · es riguroso (severe; intense) · ca rigorós (severe; intense) · eo rigora (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · ru стро́гий (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · cmn 嚴苛的 /严苛的 (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · uk жорсткий (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · pt rigoroso (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · eo severa (severe; intense) · uk суворий (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · nb rigorøs (severe; intense) · tr dakik (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · nn rigorøs (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · nn rigorøs (severe; intense) · tr şiddetli (severe; intense) · ru суро́вый (severe; intense) · uk ретельний (severe; intense) · nl rigoureus (severe; intense) · ru то́чный (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · la rigorosus (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · de streng (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · gl rigoroso (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · nl rigoureus (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · ca rigorós (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · tr sert (severe; intense) · fi ankara (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · nb rigorøs (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · bg строг (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · gl rigoroso (severe; intense) · de rigoros (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · da intens (severe; intense) · cmn 嚴謹的 /严谨的 (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · ml കർക്കശ (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · es rigoroso (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · bg суров (severe; intense) · cmn 嚴酷的 /严酷的 (severe; intense) · fi perinpohjainen (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · es rigoroso (severe; intense) · pt rigoroso (severe; intense) · fr rigoureux (severe; intense) · fr rigoureux (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · tr dikkatli (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor) · tr özenli (showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor)