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.

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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.

Adjective

(er)

Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Chapter 21:

*:Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.

*1987 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :

*:he has been so brave , giving it all a dignity.

(label) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.

*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)

*:It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.

Making a fine show or display.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Wear my dagger with the braver grace.

* (1558-1592)

*:For I have gold, and therefore will be brave . / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.

*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)

*:Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.

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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.