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(rɪgəʳ)
Word forms: plural rigoursregional note: in AM, use rigor
1. plural noun
If you refer to the rigours of an activity or job, you mean the difficult, demanding, or unpleasant things that are associated with it.
He found the rigours of the tour too demanding. [+ of]
...the rigours of childbirth.
Synonyms: ordeal, suffering, trial, hardship More Synonyms of rigour
2. uncountable noun
If something is done with rigour, it is done in a strict, thorough way.
The new current affairs series addresses challenging issues with freshness and rigour.
More Synonyms of rigour

rigour in British English

or US rigor (ˈrɪɡə)
noun
1. 
harsh but just treatment or action
2. 
a severe or cruel circumstance; hardship
the rigours of famine
3. 
strictness, harshness, or severity of character
4. 
strictness in judgment or conduct; rigorism
5.  mathematics, logic
logical validity or accuracy
6.  obsolete
rigidity
Word origin
C14: from Latin rigor

Examples of 'rigour' in a sentence
rigour

Could his body withstand the physical rigours?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He frowned on what he saw as his wife's lack of intellectual rigour and dismissed fellow regulars at his village pub as mentally beneath him.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Basic errors such as wrong names and treatments litter the ombudsman's reports and investigators lack rigour, the association said.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The discipline and the rigour was not there.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The defenders are very strong and you must be able to withstand the rigour.
The Sun (2015)
Those looking to escape the rigours of life during their lunch hour.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
King has done a decent job of examining these issues without losing touch with scientific rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Otherwise the dazzling visuals increasingly seem designed to camouflage a lack of thematic rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And no other country has explored the painful parts of its history with such rigour and intensity.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
We need academic rigour and broad education.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It claimed that intellectual rigour had been weakened in the drive for wider participation.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But he will run his team with discipline and rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They are taught to cope with the rigours of life in a structured environment.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
His book is also strikingly lacking in rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
And with them the rigour of life went too.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He added that until now the inspection system for adoption has lacked rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They are unable or unwilling to withstand the rigours of mucking out and riding for hours each day.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We hope that his body is strong enough to withstand the rigours of all the cricket coming up this summer.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He had the great pleasure of taking forward a discipline which he did with an insight bred of disciplined rigour and scholarly industry.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Well, at least he makes a pass at scientific rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
As well as the academic rigour of the business course, there is an unhelpful exam timetable.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Like all good servants, it excels by performing its job with rigour and discipline.
The Times Literary Supplement (2008)
It does not take much to set off one of their arguments, conducted with fierce academic rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Seeing themselves as free individuals, the concepts of party discipline or rigour are bound to be anathema.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
A committee has no discipline and no understanding of technique and is often composed of persons without the necessary intellectual rigour.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Q. That isn't exactly scientific rigour.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
He admits that the rigours of the job mean that his social life has'gone to hell '.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)

In other languages
rigour

British English: rigour NOUN
job If you refer to the rigours of an activity or job, you mean the difficult, demanding, or unpleasant things that are associated with it.
He found the rigours of the tour too demanding.
  • American English: rigor
  • Brazilian Portuguese: rigores
  • Chinese: 艰辛
  • European Spanish: rigores
  • French: rigueur
  • German: Strenge
  • Italian: difficoltà
  • Japanese: 過酷さ
  • Korean: 고됨
  • European Portuguese: rigores
  • Latin American Spanish: rigores
British English: rigour NOUN
strictness If something is done with rigour, it is done in a strict, thorough way.
The new current affairs series promises to address challenging issues with freshness and rigour.
  • American English: rigor
  • Brazilian Portuguese: rigor
  • Chinese: 严谨
  • European Spanish: rigor
  • French: rigueur
  • German: Gründlichkeit
  • Italian: rigore
  • Japanese: 厳密さ
  • Korean: 엄격함
  • European Portuguese: rigor
  • Latin American Spanish: rigor

1 (noun) 
Definition
a severe or cruel circumstance
the rigours of childbirth
Synonyms
ordeal
the painful ordeal of identifying the body
suffering
It has caused terrible suffering to animals.
trial
the trials of adolescence
hardship
Many people are suffering economic hardship.
privation (formal)
They endured years of privation during the war.
2 (noun) 
Definition
strictness in judgment or conduct
We need to address such challenging issues with rigour.
Synonyms
strictness
austerity
rigidity
firmness
There was no denying his considerable firmness of purpose.
hardness
Her hardness is balanced by a goofy humor.
harshness
They treated him with extreme harshness.
inflexibility
stringency
asperity
sternness
3 (noun) 
His work is built round academic rigour and years of insight.
Synonyms
thoroughness
accuracy
The text cannot be guaranteed as to the accuracy of speakers' words.
precision
The interior is planned with meticulous precision.
exactitude
the care and exactitude with which the research has been executed
exactness
conscientiousness
meticulousness
punctiliousness
preciseness

Additional synonyms

in the sense of accuracy
Definition
faithful representation of the truth
The text cannot be guaranteed as to the accuracy of speakers' words.
Synonyms
exactness,
precision,
fidelity,
authenticity,
correctness,
closeness,
truth,
verity,
nicety,
veracity,
faithfulness,
truthfulness,
niceness,
exactitude,
strictness,
meticulousness,
carefulness,
scrupulousness,
preciseness,
faultlessness,
accurateness
in the sense of austerity
Definition
the state of being austere
Synonyms
sternness,
gravity,
seriousness,
formality,
severity,
rigour,
stiffness,
hardness,
coldness,
harshness,
solemnity,
inflexibility,
grimness,
strictness,
exactingness,
forbiddingness
in the sense of exactitude
Definition
the quality of being exact
the care and exactitude with which the research has been executed
Synonyms
precision,
truth,
accuracy,
correctness,
rigour,
regularity,
veracity,
faithfulness,
orderliness,
strictness,
carefulness,
scrupulousness,
promptitude,
preciseness,
faultlessness,
rigorousness,
painstakingness,
unequivocalness

Synonyms of 'rigour'

rigour

Explore 'rigour' in the dictionary

Additional synonyms

in the sense of firmness
There was no denying his considerable firmness of purpose.
Synonyms
resolve,
resolution,
constancy,
inflexibility,
steadfastness,
obduracy,
strictness,
strength of will,
fixity,
fixedness,
staunchness
in the sense of hardness
Her hardness is balanced by a goofy humor.
Synonyms
severity,
toughness,
callousness,
strictness,
lack of compassion,
sternness,
cold-heartedness,
hard-heartedness
in the sense of hardship
Definition
something that causes suffering
Many people are suffering economic hardship.
Synonyms
suffering,
want,
need,
trouble,
trial,
difficulty,
burden,
misery,
torment,
oppression,
persecution,
grievance,
misfortune,
austerity,
adversity,
calamity,
affliction,
discomfort,
tribulation,
privation (formal),
destitution
in the sense of harshness
They treated him with extreme harshness.
Synonyms
severity,
brutality,
roughness,
sternness,
hardness
in the sense of precision
Definition
the quality of being precise
The interior is planned with meticulous precision.
Synonyms
exactness,
care,
accuracy,
fidelity,
correctness,
rigour,
nicety,
particularity,
exactitude,
meticulousness,
definiteness,
dotting the i's and crossing the t's,
preciseness
in the sense of privation
Definition
loss or lack of the necessities of life
They endured years of privation during the war.
Synonyms
want,
poverty,
need,
suffering,
loss,
lack,
distress,
misery,
necessity,
hardship,
penury,
destitution,
neediness,
indigence
in the sense of suffering
It has caused terrible suffering to animals.
Synonyms
pain,
torture,
distress,
agony,
misery,
ordeal,
discomfort,
torment,
hardship,
anguish,
affliction,
martyrdom
in the sense of trial
the trials of adolescence
Synonyms
hardship,
suffering,
trouble,
pain,
load,
burden,
distress,
grief,
misery,
ordeal,
hard times,
woe,
unhappiness,
adversity,
affliction,
tribulation,
wretchedness,
vexation,
cross to bear
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