RIGOROUS Synonyms

• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• (of rules) stringently enforced

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• exercising caution or showing care or attention

• cautiously attentive

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• full of cares or anxiety

• mindful of the future in spending money

• including all or everything

• an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge

• broad in scope

• requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

• developed or executed with care and in minute detail

• obeying the rules

• trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise

• marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• lacking compromising or mitigating elements

• claim as due or just

• take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

• tending to give force or emphasis

• of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor

• a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

• characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form

• characterized by method and orderliness

• marked by precise accordance with details

• marked by extreme care in treatment of details

• sharply exact or accurate or delimited

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• characterized by order and planning

• of or relating to taxonomy

• painstakingly careful and accurate

• performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• characterized by extreme care and great effort

• having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled

• characterized by extreme care and great effort

• closely constrained or constricted or constricting

• of such close construction as to be impermeable

• firmly or closely

• in an attentive manner

• pulled or drawn tight

• set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration

• pressed tightly together

• (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

• affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow

• of textiles

• securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid

• (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched

• very drunk

• exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• packed closely together