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Rigour vs Rigorous - What's the difference?

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Rigorous is a related term of rigour.


As a noun rigour

is severity or strictness.

As a adjective 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.

rigour

English

(wikipedia rigour)

Alternative forms

* rigor (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Severity or strictness.
  • A trembling or shivering response.
  • Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
  • Shrewd questioning.
  • Higher level of difficulty.
  • (British, slang) An abbreviated form of rigour mortis.

    • Related terms

    * rigid * rigorous * rigorousness

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    rigorous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rigourous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
  • Violent.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * capricious