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Definition
strong
The exact meaning of robust can depend upon its context. For example:
- "a robust person" — strong and healthy
- "a robust system" — unlikely to fail
- "a robust defense" — strong and energetic
- "robust flavor" — strong, rich, and complex
- And I was robust and in possession of my sex; I mean by that that it wasn't stroking a boy of eight on his new glossy hair, and there was something more to be assumed than that I was a child.Chapter 9 (7% in)
- As a robust, full-blooded man might mount up to a pulpit and then confess his weakness before God, Einhorn, with his feebleness demonstrated for a preliminary, got himself situated to speak of strength, with strength.Chapter 5 (32% in)
- This wasn't good enough for Mr. Magnus, with the long gray threads of baldness on his robust head.Chapter 11 (51% in)
- Next he went to the closet to see whether the things were there that Charlotte had given her, the shoes, handbag, dresses, and he missed at once a light coat, handed down by a more robust person, that didn't fit her anyway.Chapter 11 (98% in)
There are no more uses of "robust" in The Adventures of Augie March.
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