Rigorous
['rɪg(ə)rəs] or ['rɪɡərəs]
Definition
(adj.) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; 'rigorous discipline'; 'tight security'; 'stringent safety measures' .
(adj.) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; 'rigorous application of the law'; 'a strict vegetarian' .
Inputed by Bennett--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
(a.) Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
(a.) Violent.
Edited by Beverly
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Severe, austere, harsh, stern, rigid, hard, strict, stringent.[2]. Exact, accurate, precise, scrupulously nice.[3]. Inclement.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- Sexual selection is, therefore, less rigorous than natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The morals of those little sects, indeed, have frequently been rather disagreeably rigorous and unsocial. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This rigorous mode of treatment, I have observed, invariably brings persons in the lower class of life to their senses. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had submitted to rigorous examination the data in reference to the disturbing influence of Jupiter and of Saturn on the orbit of Uranus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Silvia