3 meanings
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1 —as in:
we follow a rigorous procedure
Definition
thorough and careful procedures- She followed the procedures rigorously.
rigorously = thoroughly and carefully
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- rigorous logic
- He said I'd been educated according to a rigorous program designed by my mother, who'd made sure I met all the requirements to graduate.Tara Westover -- Educated
- My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and many such details.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- We all submitted to a rigorous search.Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
- and proceeded again to make rigorous investigation of the premises.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat
- Had all regrets been punished as rigorously as...Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Celestial Railroad
- Everything speaks of a hasty departure or a rigorous search or both.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- By itself, the regimen proposed here, when followed rigorously, can purify the foulest breath.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- Unsatisfied, he punched in the CHECKLIM program, a more rigorous testing of the circuit banks.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
rigorous = with thorough and careful procedures
rigorously = strictly
rigorous = thorough and careful
rigorous = thorough and careful
rigorously = thoroughly
rigorously = thoroughly and carefully
rigorous = thorough and careful
2 —as in:
a rigorous math class
Definition
difficult and demanding- The class was equally interesting and rigorous.
rigorous = difficult and demanding
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- Navy SEALs go through an incredibly rigorous qualification and training program.
- He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Only one of us here today has ever undergone the rigorous training required of a Receiver.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- While most other recruits—that's what they called us; we had to earn the title "marine" by completing the rigors of boot camp—received a letter every day or two, I sometimes received a half dozen each night.J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy
- It was his custom, too, as it has been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast—not however, like them, in order to purify the body, and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination—but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him, as an act of penance.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- He read rigorously for several days, caught a few small errors, and penciled in supporting facts, especially about his evolved musical tastes.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- ...the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less rigorous valleys.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- ...she would have no idea of the rigors of running a hospital in Africa.Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
- They would be tough, hardy bugs, able to withstand the rigors of space, and they would grow and duplicate and divide.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
rigorous = difficult and demanding
rigorous = difficult and demanding
rigorous = difficult and demanding
rigors = difficulties (things that are difficult and demanding)
rigorously = in a manner that is difficult and demanding
rigorously = with energetic effort (in a difficult and demanding manner)
rigorous = difficult and demanding
rigors = difficulties (things that are difficult and demanding)
rigors = difficulties (things that are difficult and demanding)
3 —as in:
rigorous enforcement
Definition
strict when enforcing rules- She supports a rigorous application of the law.
rigorous = strict when enforcing rules
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- rigorous discipline
- In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- the rigour of severest lawWilliam Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- His stern measures as Director were given an odd legitimacy by his personal life, the rigor of his insistent celibacy.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
- The evidence shows that he had been exceptionally dedicated, and it is precisely that rigorous and unbending attitude of spirit—the concept of duty and obedience above all which dwells unshakably in the mind of every good soldier—that gives his memoirs a desolating convincingness.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Among other things, he was rigorously conventional and had quickly accommodated himself to McGraw-Hill's tidy, colorless and archconservative mold.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.Wells, H.G. -- The Time Machine
rigor = strictness (when enforcing rules)
rigorously = strictly
rigour = strict enforcement
(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use rigor.)
rigor = strictness (when enforcing rules)
rigorous = strict
rigorous = strict when enforcing rules
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