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bulky
English
Etymology
From Middle English bulki, boulky, equivalent to bulk +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?lki/
Adjective
bulky (comparative bulkier, superlative bulkiest)
- Being large in size, mass, or volume.
- Unwieldy.
- (bodybuilding) Having excess body mass, especially muscle.
Translations
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robust
English
Etymology
From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????b?st/, /???b?st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o??b?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Hyphenation: ro?bust
Adjective
robust (comparative robuster or more robust, superlative robustest or most robust) (see usage notes)
- Evincing strength and health; strong.
- He was a robust man of six feet four.
- robust health
- A robust wall was put up.
- 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
- She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
- Violent; rough; rude.
- Requiring strength or vigor
- robust employment
- Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety
- (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
- (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
- (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
Usage notes
- "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".
Derived terms
- robustness
Translations
See also
- Robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- brotus, or bust, turbos
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin r?bustus, first attested circa 1400.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ru?bust/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ro?bust/
Adjective
robust (feminine robusta, masculine plural robusts or robustos, feminine plural robustes)
- robust (evincing strength and health)
- Synonyms: fort, vigorós
Derived terms
- robustament
- robustesa
Further reading
- “robust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “robust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “robust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
References
German
Etymology
From Latin r?bustus, from r?bur, r?bus (“strength, hard timber, oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o?b?st/
- Hyphenation: ro?bust
Adjective
robust (comparative robuster, superlative am robustesten)
- robust
Declension
Derived terms
- Robustheit
Further reading
- “robust” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin robustus
Adjective
robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)
- robust, sturdy
References
- “robust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin robustus
Adjective
robust (neuter singular robust, definite singular and plural robuste)
- robust, sturdy
References
- “robust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French robuste.
Adjective
robust m or n (feminine singular robust?, masculine plural robu?ti, feminine and neuter plural robuste)
- robust
Declension
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