Definition of Rigorous

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Rigorous

Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.

Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.

Violent.

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Rigorous Quotations

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.
Bell Hooks

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Ezra Pound

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
Michael Porter

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
Rory Bremner

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Christopher Lasch

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Rigorous Translations

rigorous in Dutch is streng, wettisch, gestreng, strikt
rigorous in Finnish is ankara
rigorous in French is rigoureux
rigorous in German is hart, hart, streng
rigorous in Italian is severo
rigorous in Spanish is riguroso

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