noun
Meaning 1
Severity or strictness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rigour
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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homophone: rigor
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homophone: rigger
noun
Meaning 2
Harshness, as of climate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Shrewd questioning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Higher level of difficulty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
excessive sternness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- severity of character
- the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
- the rigors of boot camp
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sternness, strictness
noun
Meaning 9
something hard to endure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the asperity of northern winters
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: difficulty, difficultness
Narrower terms: sternness
noun
Meaning 10
the quality of being valid and rigorous
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cogency, validity, rigor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: credibility, credibleness, believability
History
Etymology
From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Macedonian: стро́гост (strógost) — severity or strictness
- Macedonian: су́ровост (súrovost) — severity or strictness
- Russian: стро́гость (strógostʹ) — severity or strictness
- Russian: суро́вость (suróvostʹ) — severity or strictness
- Russian: твёрдость (tvjórdostʹ) — severity or strictness
- Spanish: rigor — severity or strictness
- Spanish: riguridad — severity or strictness
- Bulgarian: суровост (surovost) — harshness
- Finnish: ankaruus — harshness
- Finnish: tiukkuus — harshness
- Ancient Greek: χαλεπότης (khalepótēs) — harshness
- Macedonian: су́ровост (súrovost) — harshness
- Norwegian: vigor — harshness
- Romanian: severitate — harshness
- Romanian: rigoare — harshness
- Russian: суро́вость (suróvostʹ) — harshness
- Russian: оцепене́ние (ocepenénije) — trembling or shivering response
- Bulgarian: непреклонност (nepreklonnost) — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Finnish: joustamattomuus — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- French: rigueur — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Latin: rigor — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Macedonian: непопу́стливост (nepopústlivost) — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Macedonian: неумо́ливост (neumólivost) — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Romanian: rigurozitate — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Romanian: fermitate — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Russian: неумоли́мость (neumolímostʹ) — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Russian: неукосни́тельность (neukosnítelʹnostʹ) — character of being unyielding or inflexible
- Finnish: vaikeus — higher level of difficulty
- Macedonian: тешко́тија (teškótija) — higher level of difficulty
- Portuguese: rigor — higher level of difficulty
- Romanian: asprime — higher level of difficulty
- Romanian: severitate — higher level of difficulty
- Russian: тя́готы (tjágoty) — higher level of difficulty
- Russian: тя́жесть (tjážestʹ) — higher level of difficulty
- Bulgarian: вкочанясване (vkočanjasvane) — an abbreviated form of rigor mortis