rugged

  • (a) sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
    • with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture
  • (a) having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
    • furrowed fields
    • his furrowed face lit by a warming smile
    furrowed,
  • (s) topographically very uneven
    • broken terrain
    • rugged ground
    broken,
  • (s) very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
    • a rugged competitive examination
    • the rugged conditions of frontier life
    • the competition was tough
    • it's a tough life
    • it was a tough job
    tough,

Synonyms

furrowed broken tough

Antonyms

delicate unfurrowed

See also

robust strong toughened tough

Words of close approximity

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rugged individualism ruggedisation ruggedise ruggedization ruggedize ruggedly ruggedness