different between rigorous vs desugar

English

Alternative forms

• rigourous (non?standard)

Etymology

From Old French, from Late Latin rigorosus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???????s/
• Rhymes: -?????s

Adjective

rigorous (comparative more rigorous, superlative most rigorous)

1. Showing, causing, or favoring rigour; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.

   a rigorous officer of justice

   a rigorous execution of law

   a rigorous inspection
2. Severe; intense.

   a rigorous winter.

Synonyms

• (showing, causing or favoring rigor): painstaking, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous
• (severe; intense): harsh, strict; see also Thesaurus:stern

Antonyms

• (severe; intense): arbitrary, capricious, whimsical

Derived terms

• nonrigorous
• overrigorous
• rigorously
• rigorousness
• unrigorous

Related terms

• rigid
• rigour

Translations

Further reading

• rigorous at OneLook Dictionary Search
• rigorous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology 1

de- +? sugar

Verb

desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)

1. (transitive, principally, food processing) To remove sugar from.

Etymology 2

de- +? sugar as in syntactic sugar

Verb

desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)

1. (transitive, computing, informal) To translate the source code of a computer program into a functionally equivalent form devoid of syntactic sugar.

Anagrams

• dargues, esguard, guardes, sugared