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Synonyms for rugged
ˈrʌg ɪdrugged
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rugged
Synonyms:
uneven, bristly, shaggy, rough, wrinkled, rude, harsh, hard, crabbed, severe, austere, surly, turbulent, inclement, bluff, blunt, untutored, churlish, unpolished, difficultAntonyms:
even, smooth, polished, glabrous, silky, glassy, refined, fine, finished, soft, mild, courtly, courteous
Princeton's WordNet
ruggedadjective
sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
"with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
Synonyms:
tough, furrowed, brokenAntonyms:
ethereal, tender, smooth, exquisite, light-handed, overdelicate, dainty, gossamer, fragile, pastel, delicate, easyfurrowed, ruggedadjective
having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
"furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
Synonyms:
tough, furrowed, brokenAntonyms:
pastel, dainty, tender, fragile, overdelicate, easy, delicate, light-handed, exquisite, ethereal, gossamer, smoothbroken, ruggedadjective
topographically very uneven
"broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
Synonyms:
unkept, low, impoverished, humiliated, wiped out(p), broken in, tough, furrowed, busted, humbled, crushed, disordered, confused, broken, upsetAntonyms:
delicate, overdelicate, dainty, pastel, exquisite, easy, gossamer, ethereal, fragile, smooth, tender, light-handedrugged, toughadjective
very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
"a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"
Synonyms:
tough, toughened, problematic, broken, sturdy, hard, furrowed, problematical, elusive, baffling, bad, ruffianly, knottyAntonyms:
light-handed, easy, pastel, delicate, ethereal, fragile, tender, exquisite, overdelicate, smooth, dainty, gossamer
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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|---|---|---|
| #402 | low | |
| #596 | hard | |
| #841 | bad | |
| #1928 | difficult | |
| #2028 | wild | |
| #2535 | broken | |
| #3964 | severe | |
| #4537 | rolling | |
| #4924 | tough | |
| #5548 | rough | |
| #5709 | resistant | |
| #6878 | confused | |
| #7893 | robust | |
| #9423 | upset | |
| #11372 | blunt | |
| #11437 | harsh | |
| #11750 | bluff | |
| #12142 | rugged | |
| #12199 | rude | |
| #12815 | steep | |
| #13587 | irregular | |
| #14263 | crushed | |
| #14739 | inclined | |
| #14954 | sturdy | |
| #14988 | problematic | |
| #19312 | busted | |
| #20139 | elusive | |
| #20272 | turbulent | |
| #21612 | uneven | |
| #22982 | manly | |
| #24283 | resilient | |
| #29651 | shaggy | |
| #30192 | impoverished | |
| #32636 | bumpy | |
| #32642 | sloping | |
| #34500 | disordered | |
| #38284 | resistive | |
| #38997 | hilly | |
| #39475 | humiliated | |
| #41659 | inclement | |
| #42003 | wrinkled | |
| #45288 | humbled | |
| #46824 | surly | |
| #47231 | beefy | |
| #53038 | austere | |
| #53611 | baffling | |
| #68031 | knotty | |
| #74160 | ruggedized | |
| #77839 | toughened | |
| #82632 | chequered | |
| #95044 | slanting | |
| #97909 | furrowed | |
| #107333 | problematical | |
| #109339 | unpolished | |
| #114713 | bristly | |
| #143026 | joyless | |
| #149185 | churlish | |
| #201184 | untutored | |
| #251752 | crabbed | |
| #260759 | unkept |
How to use rugged in a sentence?
I know that todays news is not what the families of the victims and the communities of northern Manitoba wanted to hear. But when searching for people in vast, remote and rugged locations, it is always a possibility that they are not immediately located.
It's a remote area with very rugged terrain. Isolated, sparsely populated, a lot of it is high desert terrain; other parts are mountainous, i'm told there are caves in the area, there are mines, unoccupied homes, outbuildings, just a lot of places for a person to hide.
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.
It's more daunting than looking on Mars because there's no light, so we're in a completely unknown world in mountains that are the most rugged on earth. There's no maps, so it's all basic, pure exploration with a mission that not only are we exploring, but we're also looking for an aircraft.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
Translations for rugged
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- robustGerman
- barboso, duro, vigoroso, al lote, bravo, despelotado, rudo, velludo, robusto, difícil, violento, turbulento, a lo natural, fuerte, filudo, rasposo, escabroso, toscoSpanish
- kallioinen, karu, epätasainen, myrskyinen, vankka, raastava, riipivä, karkea, hapan, rosoinen, karski, takkuinenFinnish
- solide, sévère, violent, hargneux, rugueux, rude, irrégulier, turbulent, robuste, tempétueuxFrench
- ruvidoItalian
- מחוספסHebrew
- ruggedLatin
- tuarangarangaMāori
- ruig, grof, potig, ruwDutch
- robustNorwegian
- бурный, грубый, щетинистый, неровный, резкий, суровый, угрюмый, шероховатый, строгий, пересечённый, прочный, крепкий, изрезанныйRussian
- engebeliTurkish
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