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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#m1)

2) Strongly made, not easy to break: a robust bike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#m2)

3) Able to keep working well in many conditions: a robust plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#m3)

4) (of food or wine) Strong and full in flavour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#x1)
- The bridge is a robust design. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#x2)
- Grandad is still robust and walks every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#x3)
- We need a robust plan in case it rains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#x4)
- The soup had a robust flavour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#x5)
- A robust test works even with a few mistakes in the data. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «robust» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robust/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.