rigour

Noun

Meaning

something hard to endure

the quality of being valid and rigorous

excessive sternness

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

severity hardness hardship rigor harshness asperity validity stiffness cogency inclemency grimness rigorousness rigourousness severeness accuracy
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Antonyms

success solution advantage delay charity mistake
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Hypernyms

difficulty credibility strictness believability difficultness credibleness

Hyponyms

sternness

Examples

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. George Steiner

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Charles Lamb

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Charlotte Brontë

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure. Heinrich Hertz

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters? Bernard Mandeville

Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. André Weil

Close letter words and terms

rigorousness rigosertib rigosol rigour mortis rigourisation rigourise