robust

adjective

1. 1

   Able to withstand adverse conditions.

2. 2

   Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

3. 3

   Requiring strength or vigor.

   robust employment

4. 4

   Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.

   robust findings

   robust proof

   robust explanation

   robust lesson

5. 5

   Rough; rude.

   As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.

6. 6

   Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.

7. 7

   Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.

8. 8

   Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

9. 9

   Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.

Forms

comparative

more robust, robuster

superlative

most robust, robustest