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burly
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??li/
- Rhymes: -??(r)li
Etymology 1
From Middle English burly, burely, borly, burlich, borlich, borlic (“tall, stately”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots burely, burly (“rough, stout, sturdy, strong”). Perhaps from Old English *b?rl?? (“noble, stately”, literally “bowerly”), equivalent to bower +? -ly; or from Old English *byrl?? (“high, raised”), from byre (“raised area, mound”), cognate with Old High German burl?h, purl?h (“lofty, elevated, high, exalted”), related to Old High German burjan (“to raise, lift, push up”). See burgeon.
Alternative forms
- bowerly (dialectal)
Adjective
burly (comparative burlier, superlative burliest)
- (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
- (Britain, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
- (US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
Translations
Etymology 2
burl +? -y
Adjective
burly (comparative more burly, superlative most burly)
- Full of burls or knots; knotty.
Middle English
Adjective
burly
- Alternative form of burely
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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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