different between rigour vs rigorous

English

Alternative forms

• rigor (US)

Etymology

From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????(?)/
• Rhymes: -???(?)
• Homophones: rigor, rigger

Noun

rigour (countable and uncountable, plural rigours)

1. Severity or strictness.
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 1:13–14:

     And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

2. Harshness, as of climate.
3. A trembling or shivering response.
4. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
5. Shrewd questioning.
6. Higher level of difficulty. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (Britain) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).

Related terms

• rigid
• rigorous
• rigorousness

Translations

Further reading

• rigour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rigour in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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.