Dictionary

rigour en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• audio Queensland
• /ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Severity or strictness.
   • And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:13–14:
2. (countable, uncountable) Harshness, as of climate.
3. (countable, uncountable) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
4. (countable, uncountable) Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
5. (countable, uncountable) Shrewd questioning.
6. (countable, uncountable) Higher level of difficulty.
7. (UK, alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).
   alt of rigor

Forms

Deriveds

rigourization · rigourness · rigourist · rigorous · rigourisation · rigourism · rigourise · rigourize

Translations (35)

fi joustamattomuus (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · mk непопу́стливост (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · ro severitate (higher level of difficulty) · la rigor (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · fi vaikeus (higher level of difficulty) · fi tiukkuus (harshness) · ru неукосни́тельность (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · mk неумо́ливост (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · ru тя́жесть (higher level of difficulty) · ru тя́готы (higher level of difficulty) · grc χαλεπότης (harshness) · ru оцепене́ние (trembling or shivering response) · es riguridad (severity or strictness) · mk стро́гост (severity or strictness) · ru суро́вость (severity or strictness) · ro rigoare (harshness) · ru неумоли́мость (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · ru твёрдость (severity or strictness) · ru суро́вость (harshness) · nb vigor (harshness) · bg непреклонност (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · fr rigueur (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · fi ankaruus (harshness) · es rigor (severity or strictness) · ro severitate (harshness) · mk су́ровост (harshness) · ro fermitate (character of being unyielding or inflexible) · bg суровост (harshness) · ru стро́гость (severity or strictness) · mk су́ровост (severity or strictness) · bg вкочанясване (an abbreviated form of rigor mortis) · mk тешко́тија (higher level of difficulty) · ro asprime (higher level of difficulty) · pt rigor (higher level of difficulty) · ro rigurozitate (character of being unyielding or inflexible)