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Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ɹəʉˈbɐst/, /ɹəˈbɐst/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɹɐʉˈbɐst/, /ɹəˈbɐst/
• Rhymes: -ʌst
• Hyphenation: ro‧bust

robust (comparative more robust or (uncommon) robuster, superlative most robust or (uncommon) robustest)

1. Able to withstand adverse conditions.

   Synonym: sturdy

   Antonym: fragile

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.

   • 1867-1868, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:

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

3. Requiring strength or vigor.

   robust employment

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

   robust findings

   robust proof

   robust explanation

   robust lesson

5. (euphemistic) Rough; rude.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 September 2026:

     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. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
7. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
8. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
9. (chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.

• robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• brotus, or bust, turbos

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus. First attested in c. 1400.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [ruˈβust]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ruˈbust]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [roˈbust]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [roˈβust]

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robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)

1. robust (evincing strength and health)

   Synonyms: fort, vigorós

• robustament
• robustesa

• “robust”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “robust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “robust”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁoˈbʊst/

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• Hyphenation: ro‧bust
• Rhymes: -ʊst

robust (strong nominative masculine singular robuster, comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)

1. robust

• Robustheit

• “robust” in Duden online
• “robust”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

From Latin rōbustus.

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

• “robust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin rōbustus.

robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)

1. robust, sturdy

• “robust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French robuste.

robust m or n (feminine singular robustă, masculine plural robuști, feminine/neuter plural robuste)

1. robust

• “robust”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

From Latin rōbustus.

robust (comparative robustare, superlative robustast)

1. robust

• hållbar
• slagtålig
• slitstark
• stryktålig

• “robust”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “robust”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “robust”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)