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rigorous


adjective

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

adjective

  1. characterized by or proceeding from rigour; harsh, strict, or severerigorous discipline
  2. severely accurate; scrupulousrigorous book-keeping
  3. (esp of weather) extreme or harsh
  4. maths logic (of a proof) making the validity of the successive steps completely explicit
adj.

late 14c., from Old French rigorous (13c., Modern French rigoureux), from Medieval Latin rigorosus, from Latin rigor (see rigor). Related: Rigorously.

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