rigorous

About 5.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.

   a rigorous officer of justice

2. adjective Severe; intense.

   a rigorous winter

Similar words

stringent hard tight demanding strict exact cruel brutal harsh unkind

Often followed by

and analysis in training than imprisonment standards discipline treatment

Word family

rigorously rigorousness rigorousnesses