Robust vs Hearty - What's the difference?
robust | hearty |
Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
* Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
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.
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}} Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak.
Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant.
a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
* 1849 , (Herman Melville), Chapter VI
*:“Ay, ay,” muttered the chief mate, as they rolled out of then-boats and swaggered on deck, “it’s your turn now, but it will be mine before long. Yaw about while you may, my hearties , I’ll do the yawing after the anchor’s up.”
As adjectives the difference between robust and hearty
is that robust is evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health while hearty is pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.As a noun hearty is
a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.robust
English
Adjective
(er)- He was a robust man of six feet four.
- She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived.
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Usage notes
* "More" and "most robust" are much more common than the forms ending in "-er" or "-est".Derived terms
* robustnessSee also
* (Robust statistics)Anagrams
* * ----hearty
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(er)- Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss.
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}