robust

About 5.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Able to withstand adverse conditions.
2. adjective Evincing strength and health; strong; both large and healthy.

   He was a robust man of six feet four.

3. adjective Requiring strength or vigor.

   robust employment

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

   robust findings

5. adjective Rough; rude.
6. adjective Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
7. adjective Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
8. adjective Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.

Similar words

strong sturdy hardy stalwart vigorous stout buirdly tasteful burly rich

Often followed by

and to health than in enough as constitution man

Word family

robuster robustest robustly robustness robustnesses