rigorous
/ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/
Meaning
Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
Severe; intense.
Severe; intense.
Examples
a rigorous officer of justice
a rigorous execution of law
a rigorous inspection
From this time onwards, the Westinghouse air brake literally went from strength to strength, and was triumphantly justified in the course of rigorous trials, both on the Pennsylvania Railroad and at Newark-on-Trent in this country.
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.
Word Forms
more rigorous
most rigorous
rigourous
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English rigorous, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman rigoreus, derived from Late Latin rigōrōsus (stiff, rigid; inflexible). By surface analysis, rigor + -ous.