robust

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rōbustus.

adj

1. Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
   He was a robust man of six feet four.
   robust health
   A robust wall was put up.
   She was stronger, larger, more robust physically than he had hitherto conceived. 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
2. Violent; rough; rude.
   As a frenetic opening continued, Cahill - whose robust approach had already prompted Jamie Carragher to register his displeasure to Atkinson - rose above the Liverpool defence to force keeper Pepe Reina into an athletic tip over the top. October 1, 2011, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport
3. Requiring strength or vigor.
   robust employment
4. Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
5. (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
6. (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
7. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
8. (chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.