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单词 rigorous
释义 rig·or·ous
\ˈrig(ə)rəs\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin rigorosus, from Latin rigor + -osus -ous
1.
 a. : manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor : allowing no abatement or mitigation : inflexibly strict : inexorable
  < liquor smuggling … has been another problem … to vex governments seeking to maintain a rigorous policy of liquor control — D.W.McConnell >
 b. : extremely or excessively strict : harsh, stern
  < a rigorous academy where the girls wore uniforms, were forbidden to correspond with male contemporaries … and were not given diplomas until they passed college entrance examinations — Robert Rice >
  < juries are now rigorous, now indulgent — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink >
2. : marked by extremes of temperature or climate, barrenness of comforts or necessities, or other strenuous challenging obstacles
 < the life was rigorous, conditions primitive — American Guide Series: Texas >
 < a combination of high altitudes, rigorous climate, poor drainage and thin soils giving rise to poor land — G.P.Wibberley >
3. : scrupulously accurate : exact, precise
 < the reader, missing … poets whom he expected to find, may complain that my criterion of significance is too rigorous — F.R.Leavis >
Synonyms: see rigid
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