Rigorous vs Acrimonious - What's the difference?
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Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
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angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter; mean-spirited; sharp in language or tone.
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Rigorous is a related term of acrimonious.
As adjectives the difference between rigorous and acrimonious
is that rigorous is manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigour; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration while acrimonious is angry, acid, and sharp in delivering argumentative replies: bitter; mean-spirited; sharp in language or tone.rigorous
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Alternative forms
* rigourousAdjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* capriciousacrimonious
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Adjective
(en adjective)Questionable Content 1579: Visitation Rights
- That would be a way more acrimonious custody battle than the one my parents had over me.
