robust

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin rōbus Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin rōbustuslbor. English robust Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

1. Able to withstand adverse conditions.
2. Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.

   “He was a robust man of six feet four.”

   “robust health”

3. Requiring strength or vigor.

   “robust employment”

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

   “robust findings”

   “robust proof”

5. Rough; rude.

   “As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.”

6. Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
7. Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
8. Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
9. Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.