Rugged
['rʌgɪd] or ['rʌɡɪd]
Definition
(adj.) sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; 'with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture' .
(adj.) very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; 'a rugged competitive examination'; 'the rugged conditions of frontier life'; 'the competition was tough'; 'it's a tough life'; 'it was a tough job' .
Edited by Kathleen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road.
(n.) Not neat or regular; uneven.
(n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
(n.) Harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.
(n.) Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
(n.) Rough to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, style, and the like.
(n.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.
(n.) Violent; rude; boisterrous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
(n.) Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
Checker: Lola
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Rough, craggy, cragged, uneven, irregular, scraggy.[2]. Harsh, inharmonious, grating.[3]. [Colloquial, U.S.] Hardy, robust, vigorous, healthy.
Edited by Francine
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard, crabbed, severe,austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt, untutored, churlish,unpolished, difficult
ANT:Even, smooth, polished, glabrous, silky, glassy, refined, fine, finished, soft,mild, courtly, courteous,[See {[caitubtroka %]?}]
Inputed by Carmela
Definition
adj. rough: uneven: shaggy: sour: stormy: grating to the ear: wrinkled: ruffled: homely: unpolished: rough: ungentle: (U.S.) robust.—adv. Rugg′edly.—n. Rugg′edness.—adjs. Rugg′y rough: uneven; Rug′-head′ed shock-headed.
Typist: Meg
Examples
- It was the face of an elderly woman, brown, rugged, and healthy, with nothing dishonest or suspicious in the look of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It has no rugged burr, no nasal twang, such as almost every one's voice here in the north has. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Coarse, rough, rugged, often distorted on the outside, within they are lined with smooth, softly-glowing, iridescent mother of pearl. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The cart is shaken all to pieces, and the rugged road is very near its end. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My eyes and heart, Yorke, take pleasure in a sweet, young, fair face, as they are repelled by a grim, rugged, meagre one. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As the shining stars were to the heavy candle in the window, so was Rachael, in the rugged fancy of this man, to the common experiences of his life. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- No vegetation softened the nakedness of these rugged rocks, which, streaked with green, yellow, and red, presented a singularly forbidding appearance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was in his working-dress, and looked rugged enough, but manly withal, and a very fit protector for the blooming little creature at his side. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Farewell, dear Amelia--Grow green again, tender little parasite, round the rugged old oak to which you cling! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The path led straight up a rugged sweep of loose chunks of pumice-stone, and for about every two steps forward we took, we slid back one. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A rugged knocking had begun upon the door of the front room. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In such a school my disposition became rugged, but firm. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For our path in life, my Dora,' said I, warming with the subject, 'is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- His appearance was rather suspicious than prepossessing, especially as, instead of doffing his bonnet, he pulled it still deeper over his rugged brow. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Immense and rugged mountains of ice often barred up my passage, and I often heard the thunder of the ground sea, which threatened my destruction. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There was no change of expression in the rugged features of the doctor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- One, aquatic, a yard long, fifteen pounds in weight, with limbs and strong claws admirably adapted for crawling over the rugged and fissured masses of l ava, feeds on seaweed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Dr. Sprague, the rugged and weighty, was, as every one had foreseen, an adherent of Mr. Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Meg