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rigorous

/ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/

rigorous adjective: showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.

Adjective

rigorous (comparative more rigorous, superlative most rigorous)

  1. Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
    • a rigorous officer of justice
    • a rigorous execution of law
  2. Severe; intense.
    • a rigorous winter
    Synonyms:
    harsh

rigorous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

rigorous in Tamil

கடுங்கண்டிப்பான, கடுமையான, கண்டிப்பான

rigorous in Urdu

rigorous
کٹھن kaṭhin

rigorous in Bengali

কঠোর, সুনির্দিষ্ট

rigorous in Malayalam

showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
കർക്കശ kaṟkkaśa
More languagesFewer languages
rigorous in Kannada
ಕನಿಕರವಿಲ್ಲದ, ತುಂಬಾ ತೊಡಕಿನ, ಕಟ್ಟುನಿಟ್ಟಿನ, ಅತಿಕಟ್ಟುನಿಟ್ಟಿನ

Examples of rigorous in a sentence

  • a rigorous inspection
  • Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

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Synonyms of rigorous

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of rigorous

Forms of rigorous

comparativemore rigorous
superlativemost rigorous
alternative formrigourous

Origin of rigorous

Inherited from Middle English rigorous, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman rigoreus, derived from Late Latin rigōrōsus (stiff, rigid; inflexible). By surface analysis, rigor + -ous.

Words formed from rigorous

Words that rhyme with rigorous

Questions about rigorous

What does rigorous mean?
Rigorous means showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
What is rigorous in Tamil?
Rigorous in Tamil is கடுங்கண்டிப்பான, கடுமையான, கண்டிப்பான. See Rigorous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use rigorous in a sentence?
a rigorous inspection
What part of speech is rigorous?
Rigorous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce rigorous?
Rigorous is pronounced /ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/.

Words near rigorous in the dictionary

  1. rigorizations
  2. rigorize
  3. rigorized
  4. rigorizes
  5. rigorizing
  6. rigorous
  7. rigorously
  8. rigorousness
  9. rigorousnesses
  10. rigors
  11. rigosertib

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rigorous (page history and authors); rigorous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کٹھن (Urdu) (page history and authors); rigorous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rigorous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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