What does rigorous mean?
Rigorous means Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough..
Rigorous
/ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/ · adjective
Meaning
Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough..
Definitions by Sense
- Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
- Severe; intense.
Example Sentences
a rigorous officer of justice
a rigorous execution of law
a rigorous inspection
From this time onwards, the Westinghouse air brake literally went from strength to strength, and was triumphantly justified in the course of rigorous trials, both on the Pennsylvania Railroad and at Newark-on-Trent in this country.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
a rigorous winter
Synonyms for rigorous
Antonyms for rigorous
Related Words
Word Forms
- more rigorous
- most rigorous
- rigourous
Usage Notes
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a synonym for rigorous?
Common synonyms include painstaking, scrupulous, harsh, strict.
What is the opposite of rigorous?
Possible antonyms include arbitrary, capricious, whimsical.
How do you use rigorous in a sentence?
a rigorous officer of justice
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