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Robust

adj. resilient, capable professional

What it means

Meaning 1

Strong, healthy, and able to withstand demanding conditions.

Reach for it when praising physical vigor or durable construction

At seventy, the robust farmer still walked the upper fields before breakfast.

Meaning 2

Thorough and dependable enough to remain sound under challenge.

Reach for it when describing evidence, plans, systems, or processes tested against failure

The auditors approved a robust method that caught both missing and duplicated entries.

Words to choose between 8

By register, from playful at the top to literary at the bottom, and by meaning across. Tap a word to see when it fits.
Meaning 1Meaning 2
everyday
warm
professional
  • Robust (this word)
formal

Meaning 1: Strong, healthy, and able to withstand demanding conditions.

  • everyday

    hardy

    Fits when surviving exposure or rough conditions is the point

    Careful It sounds rustic and does not fit most arguments or methods.

  • everyday

    strong

    Fits when broad power or soundness is all you need to say

    Careful Strong is less specific about health and resistance under varied stress.

  • warm

    hearty

    Fits when healthy strength carries warmth or appetite

    Careful For professional assessment, hearty can sound folksy or refer to food.

  • formal

    vigorous

    Fits when active physical energy is visible

    Careful Robust health may be quiet and steady rather than energetic.

Meaning 2: Thorough and dependable enough to remain sound under challenge.

  • warm

    resilient

    Fits when recovery after disruption is more important than resisting it

    Careful Robust emphasizes strength before failure; resilient may bend or fail and recover.

  • professional

    durable

    Fits when long use and wear are the main tests

    Careful Durability concerns time and wear, not breadth or evidential strength.

  • professional

    rigorous

    Fits when methodical strictness makes an analysis trustworthy

    Careful A robust system can be practical and fault-tolerant without academic rigor.

  • professional

    sound

    Fits when construction or reasoning has no serious weakness

    Careful Sound does not imply the stress tolerance built into robust.

Opposites 3

  • frail
  • weak
  • flimsy

Common phrases 3

  • robust health

    Regular meals and outdoor work helped the foal reach robust health.

  • robust evidence

    The panel waited for robust evidence before changing the treatment guidance.

  • robust system

    A robust system kept local copies when the network connection failed.

Word family 1

Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: TaxRebate, British accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Updated