Adjective

(en-adj)

Of, related to, or resembling flesh.

* 1850 , , David Copperfield , ch. 7:

Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.

* 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 8:

[O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.

(of a person) Having considerable flesh.

* 1894 , , The Prisoner of Zenda , ch. 3:

The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.

* 1908 , , "The Heathen":

He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.

* 2009 , Lisa Abend, " Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks," Time , 15 Jan.:

It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.

Adjective

(er)

Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.

He was a robust man of six feet four.

* Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.

Violent; rough; rude.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top.}}

Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment.

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

(systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.

(software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.

(statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.