rigorous

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• /ˈɹɪɡəɹəs/
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Inherited from Middle English rigorous, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman rigoreus, derived from Late Latin rigōrōsus (stiff, rigid; inflexible). By surface analysis, rigor + -ous.

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: строг (strog) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Bulgarian: взискателен (vziskatelen) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Catalan: rigorós — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Chinese Mandarin: 嚴苛的 /严苛的 — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Chinese Mandarin: 嚴謹的 /严谨的 — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Dutch: rigoureus — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Esperanto: rigora — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Finnish: ankara — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Finnish: perinpohjainen — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Finnish: perusteellinen — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• French: rigoureux — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Galician: rigoroso — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• German: streng — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• German: rigoros — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Latin: rigorosus — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Malayalam: കർക്കശ (kaṟkkaśa) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Norwegian Bokmål: rigorøs — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rigorøs — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Portuguese: rigoroso — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Romanian: riguros — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Russian: стро́гий (strógij) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Russian: то́чный (tóčnyj) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Russian: скрупулёзный (skrupuljóznyj) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Spanish: riguroso — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Spanish: rigoroso — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Turkish: dakik — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Turkish: dikkatli — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Turkish: özenli — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Turkish: sıkı — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Turkish: titiz — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Ukrainian: суворий (suvoryj) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Ukrainian: жорсткий (žorstkyj) — showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor
• Bulgarian: суров (surov) — severe; intense
• Catalan: rigorós — severe; intense
• Chinese Mandarin: 嚴酷的 /严酷的 — severe; intense
• Danish: intens — severe; intense
• Dutch: rigoureus — severe; intense
• Esperanto: severa — severe; intense
• Finnish: ankara — severe; intense
• French: rigoureux — severe; intense
• Galician: rigoroso — severe; intense
• German: rau — severe; intense
• Norwegian Bokmål: rigorøs — severe; intense
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rigorøs — severe; intense
• Portuguese: rigoroso — severe; intense
• Russian: суро́вый (suróvyj) — severe; intense
• Spanish: riguroso — severe; intense
• Spanish: rigoroso — severe; intense
• Turkish: sert — severe; intense
• Turkish: şiddetli — severe; intense
• Ukrainian: ретельний (retelʹnyj) — severe; intense