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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹəʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ɹoʊˈbʌst/, /ɹəˈbʌst/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ɹəʉˈbɐst/, /ɹəˈbɐst/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ɹɐʉˈbɐst/, /ɹəˈbɐst/
• (Indic) IPA: /rɵˈbəsʈ/, /ˈrobəsʈ/
• 韻: -ʌst
• ハイフネーション: ro‧bust

形容詞

robust (comparative more robust or (uncommon) robuster, superlative most robust or (uncommon) robustest)

1. Able to withstand adverse conditions.

   Synonym: sturdy

   Antonym: fragile

2. Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

   robust health

   A robust wall was put up.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:

     She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

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

   robust explanation

   robust lesson

5. (euphemistic) Rough; rude.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

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

派生語

関連する語

• robusta

Further reading

• robust statistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• brotus, or bust, turbos