Robust vs Indomitable - What's the difference?
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Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health.
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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.
Incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.
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Robust is a related term of indomitable.
As adjectives the difference between robust and indomitable
is that robust is evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health while indomitable is incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.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
* * ----indomitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.
- But he was a youth of indomitable spirit, strong and agile as a wild cat.
When Betty Got Frank," Time , 31 March:
- Nobody came on to the movie camera—wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission—like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" . . . . [S]he was indomitable , unstoppable.