Dictionary

roboreous en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin roboreus (“oak, oaken, sturdy”), from robur (“reddish oak; strength, hardness”) + -eus (“-eous: forming adjectives”). Equivalent to roborate + -eous.

Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of oaken, made of oak wood.
2. (rare) Synonym of sturdy, resembling the strength, firmness, &c. of oak.
   • In two cases coming under our observation, in the dissecting room, of where one upper jaw had been removed years previously, the elongated and tartar-invested teeth on the side of the mandible corresponding to the removed maxilla were in striking contrast to the roboreous, shining teeth of the opposite side. 1902, William Thomas Eckley, Corinne Buford Eckley, Regional Anatomy of the Head and Neck, page 51:
   • A critic, if morbidly prone to carping, might object even to this reading on the ground that an unsophisticated Englishman, however tender hearted, if at all deficient in imagination might mistake the figurative allusion to the "fires" of affection, for a literal reference to those more roboreous fires of his corporeal existence, which are, proverbially, the combined product of vigorous digestion […] 1854 June 14, Southern Literary Messenger, volume 20, page 327:
   • Isogogically we would announce our roboreous proclivities for linguistic exungulation. 1901, The Journal of Commercial Education - Volume 18, page 15:

Forms

Relateds

corroborate · corroboration · roborative · roborant · roboration · roborate · roborean · robust

Synonyms

firmness · made of oak wood · sturdy · oaken · resembling the strength · &c. of oak