Robust vs Resolute - 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.
* 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.
Firm, unyielding, determined.
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(obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
Robust is a related term of resolute.
As adjectives the difference between robust and resolute
is that robust is evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health while resolute is firm, unyielding, determined.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
* * ----resolute
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She was resolute in her determination to resist his romantic advances.
- He was resolute in his decision to stay.
- Edward is at hand, / Ready to fight; therefore be resolute .
- If the Coward Bumble Bee / In his chimney corner stay, / I, must resoluter be!
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