Synonyms for rigor
ˈrɪg ərrig·or

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1. rigor

   Synonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Antonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

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1. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousnessnoun

   something hard to endure

   "the asperity of northern winters"

   Synonyms:
   hardness, cogency, hard knocks, severeness, austereness, harshness, gruesomeness, asperity, luridness, rigour, stiffness, inclemency, badness, adversity, hardship, rigorousness, sharpness, grimness, severity, rigourousness, ghastliness, validity

2. cogency, validity, rigor, rigournoun

   the quality of being valid and rigorous

   Synonyms:
   cogency, severeness, robustness, hardiness, harshness, hardness, asperity, stiffness, validness, inclemency, hardship, rigorousness, lustiness, grimness, severity, rigourousness, rigour, validity

3. severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffnessnoun

   excessive sternness

   "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

   Synonyms:
   insensibility, ruggedness, callosity, grimness, awkwardness, severeness, unfeelingness, austereness, harshness, hardness, asperity, stiffness, callousness, scratchiness, roughness, cogency, gracelessness, inclemency, inclementness, badness, bad weather, hardship, rigorousness, cruelty, cruelness, clumsiness, abrasiveness, severity, rigourousness, rigour, validity

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1. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, inflexibility

2. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   severity, austerity, harshness, sternness, asperity

3. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   strictness, exactness

4. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   inclemency

5. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) sudden coldness with shivering

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1. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   rigidity, inflexibility, austerity, severity, asperity, sternness, inclemency, stringency

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1. List of paraphrases for "rigor":

   rigour, thoroughness, stiffness, stringency, rigidity, strictness, severity

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How to use rigor in a sentence?

1. Ron Belldegrun:

   Infant formula is — appropriately — the most regulated food in the world. The road to providing babies with sole source nutrition should be met with the highest rigor, but for the benefit of babies, and their parents, there need to be more incentives for new brands to rise to the challenge. We need more support for infant formula manufacturing and product innovation at the state and federal levels.

2. Patrick Beattie:

   It’s important to combine this passion for concept — more convenient care — with the rigor of science to make sure we’re not creating hype, there’s a potential downside if you overhype things, especially in the consumer market.

3. Diana Silver:

   There hasn't been a lot of research about the rigor and depth of enforcement of these laws, and there needs to be, without it, we can't know what contribution these laws can make.

4. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa:

   We have to be loyal to the commitments we have adopted, especially the ones that are part of our foreign policy, such as the European Union, without rigor and financial transparency the risk of returning to crises is painfully larger.

5. Danilo Astori:

   Macroeconomic policy will continue under the same criteria that we have had over the last 10 years, we will act with discipline and rigor to control the inflationary pressures that the country still has.