Word Finder - robust

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Evincing strength and health; strong.

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A robust wall was put up.

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Violent; rough; rude.

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Requiring strength or vigor

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robust employment

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Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety

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Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.

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Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.

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Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

No handshake for Julie; she gave each of us a robust hug.

The camel is of a more robust and compact breed than the tall beast used in India, and is more carefully tended.

Their hinder limbs are shorter than in the true kangaroos, and their fore limbs are longer and more robust, and have very strong curved and pointed claws.

He was not handsome, but of a robust and well-proportioned frame.

No words were exchanged until much later, after our naked and robust greeting.

It was one of the highlights of the town's robust Fourth of July celebration.

A phone call excused him from hearing more of the robust bragging.

The docile, yet robust and hardy peasants, under their foreign leaders, gained an unbroken series of successes in the first Syrian.

He had never been of a robust constitution, and after a little more than a week's illness from pneumonia following influenza, duke of he died at Sandringham.

Of robust frame and distinguished appearance, he possessed great courage and military capacity.

His health was far from robust.

Never very robust, his health gradually became weaker and ultimately he was reduced to the condition of a valetudinarian.

Some of them are as light-skinned as Europeans, tall, robust, thin-lipped, straight-nosed, with straight black hair; others are shorter and darker in complexion, with round heads, long noses, thick lips, and scraggy limbs, indicating perhaps the commingling of more than one Semitic people.

As the field of existence is limited and preoccupied, it is only the hardier, more robust, better-suited-tocircumstance individuals, who are able to struggle forward to maturity, these inhabiting only the situations to which they have superior adaptation and greater power of occupancy than any other kind; the weaker and less circumstance-suited being prematurely destroyed.

He was a robust man, and inherited his father's love of violent exercise; but his character was weak and his intelligence mediocre, and he had none of the superficial and brilliant gifts of Francis I.

It is also more robust in form than the others, its general aspect being more that of a fox than a weasel; in fact its usual name among the American hunters is "black fox."

Strauss as the typical "Philistine of culture"; his revolt against the fashion of pessimism to demand a new and more robust affirmation of life, not merely although, but because, it is painful.

His constitution was far from robust, and throughout his life he suffered from feeble health and low spirits.

This red-haired man was neither a sergeant nor a corporal, but being robust he ordered about those weaker than himself.

In the pursuit of pure science for its own sake, undisturbed by sordid considerations, he shone as a beacon light to younger men - an exemplar of simple tastes, robust nature and lofty aspirations.

Men of robust mind would have been glad to get rid of such a yoke.

It didn't seem to be of specially robust construction but survived it all somehow.

Mill complains that his father often required more than could be expected of him, but his tasks were not so severe as to prevent him from growing up a healthy and high-spirited boy, though he was not constitutionally robust, and his pursuits were so different from those of other boys of the same age.

The Spartans were happy, said the writer, because they had plenty of good, suitable clothing and lodging, robust women, and were able to meet their requirements both physical and mental.

It remained for the more robust faith of a Schliemann to show that such scepticism was all too faint-hearted, by proving that at such sites as Tiryns, Mycenae and Hissarlik evidences of a very early period of Greek civilization awaited the spade of the excavator.

For special treatment towards the regeneration of an infected race, the most robust worms were to be selected, and the moths issuing from the cocoons were to be coupled in numbered cells, where the female was to be confined till she deposited her eggs.

The mooruk, or Bennett's cassowary (Casuarius Bennettii), is a shorter and more robust bird, approaching in the thickness of its legs to the moas.

Koreans suffer from malaria, but Europeans and their children are fairly free from climatic maladies, and enjoy robust health.

This deluxe version of Travel scrabble offers players a compact and robust Scrabble game which is ideal for journeys, holidays etc.

The composition of the soil is more robust and open to better air circulation.

Called Podcaster, this podcast application is actually more robust than iTunes in that it can download new podcast content over the air.

The Palm Treo line, which certainly robust, did not have the same kind of appeal as alternatives like the BlackBerry.

The iPhone is well-known for its incredibly robust App Store, offering users a wide range of applications that can be installed wirelessly on the Apple mobile device.

That's because the TracFone browser may not be robust enough to render the sites or the sites may be blocked.

The Droid X has the Android Market and, while it is making progress, it is nowhere near as large and robust as the App Store.

This could have to do with the robust Verizon Wireless network.

Thankfully, the online community is very robust and you can always use your favorite search engine to look for help.

It may not be quite as powerful or robust as the more modern applications available on newer devices, but they can still get the job done for the average user.

Robust health and beauty can also skew birth order expectations.

Other communities such as Hip Hop Pow provide content for free, but it's going to not be as robust as the other, paid sites.

At the same time, new Latin dances blending the cultural styles have generated a strong and robust movement vocabulary.

In a robust economy, everyone is buying and selling at competitive-but not particularly outlandish-prices.

We want to continue to offer robust learning environments that include video, audio, text, etc. for the students.

Find out what other resources the school provides - like online tutoring for math or an online writing center and make sure the school has a robust online library for student use.

Puritan's Pride has been in business over 50 years and today sells vitamins, supplements, herbs and more through mail order catalogs and a robust website.

These self-fabric fasteners range from teeny-tiny spaghetti straps to robust drapes of fabric that can be worn in a variety of ways.

Today, the company produces some of the most robust - and expensive - juicers on the market.

New innovations for Dust Busters include cyclone technology, more robust filters, and better methods of charging the batteries.

Some of the more delicate designs may be better suited to indoor use, while more robust globes may make great outdoor candle lanterns.

Candle holders for use outdoors need to be more robust and rugged than those designed for indoor use.