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robust Adjective 1. very strong and healthy 2. sturdily built: the new generation of robust lasers 3. requiring or displaying physical strength: robust tackles [Latin robur an oak, strength]
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robust adjective 1. strong, tough, powerful, athletic, well, sound, fit, healthy, strapping, hardy, rude, vigorous, rugged, muscular, sturdy, hale, stout, staunch, hearty, husky (informal) in good health, lusty, alive and kicking, fighting fit, sinewy, brawny, in fine fettle, thickset, fit as a fiddle (informal) able-bodied << OPPOSITE weak adjective 2. rough, raw, rude, coarse, raunchy (slang) earthy, boisterous, rollicking, unsubtle, indecorous, roisterous << OPPOSITE refined adjective 3. straightforward, practical, sensible, realistic, pragmatic, down-to-earth, hard-headed, common-sensical |
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Halpin being the youngest and not over robust was perhaps a trifle "spoiled. On the weak and aged, and especially on delicate Females, the force of attraction tells much more heavily than on the robust of the Male Sex, so that it is a point of breeding, if you meet a Lady in the street, always to give her the North side of the way -- by no means an easy thing to do always at short notice when you are in rude health and in a climate where it is difficult to tell your North from your South. First, to be too sensible of hurt; for no man is angry, that feels not himself hurt; and therefore tender and delicate persons must needs be oft angry; they have so many things to trouble them, which more robust natures have little sense of. |
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