Definitions for rigorous

rigorous rig·or·ous

Spelling: [rig-er-uh s]
IPA: /ˈrɪg ər əs/

Rigorous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in rigorous (gioorrsu).

Definitions for rigorous

adjective

  1. characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline:
  2. severely exact or accurate; precise:
  3. (of weather or climate) uncomfortably severe or harsh; extremely inclement.
  4. Logic, Mathematics. logically valid.

Origin of rigorous

First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word rigōrōsus. See rigor, -ous

Examples for rigorous

The rigorous metaphysician will please not begin to carp at our definition.

In all his life Mr. Varga had never had to face so rigorous an ordeal.

And that kind of rigorous attention to detail is not something you can normally do in television.

But Olds did more than build Nurse-Family Partnership; he did the rigorous evaluation to prove it would work.

Turning the tide of the epidemic, he says, will require “rigorous contact, tracing, and quarantining.”

He accordingly sentenced him to six months' rigorous imprisonment.

The best performing middle schools place great emphasis on “future-focus”—on rigorous high-school curriculum.

The most rigorous propriety was the order of the day, or rather of the evening.

Therefore, we can at least infer that the people of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes did not have a rigorous eugenics program like Sparta.

At Rome the rigorous mysteries of Mithra had paved the way for reform.

Word Value for rigorous
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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