robust

«robust» in Mova's school dictionary: Strong and healthy: a robust child — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (robust, more robust, most robust)

meaning for a pupil

1) Strong and healthy: a robust child. tree →

2) Strongly made, not easy to break: a robust bike. tree →

3) Able to keep working well in many conditions: a robust plan. tree →

4) (of food or wine) Strong and full in flavour. tree →

sense in the lessons

In design and technology a robust model or structure survives tests and knocks. In science and maths a robust method still works when data are messy. In everyday talk a robust person is sturdy and rarely ill.

examples

• This robust lunchbox won't crack if you drop it. tree →
• The bridge is a robust design. tree →
• Grandad is still robust and walks every day. tree →
• We need a robust plan in case it rains. tree →
• The soup had a robust flavour. tree →
• A robust test works even with a few mistakes in the data. tree →
• The lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchman, then a robust young man, had entered upon the duties of his office. tree →

note

Opposite: fragile, weak, delicate. Noun: robustness. Stress: roh-BUST (UK and US).

In the corpora

• "A robust discussion" means a heated argument; it is official language.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «robust» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.