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US
/ˈɹəɡəd/
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ADJECTIVE
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sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture -
very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
it was a tough job
a rugged competitive examination
the rugged conditions of frontier life
the competition was tough
it's a tough life -
having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
his furrowed face lit by a warming smile
furrowed fields -
topographically very uneven
broken terrain
rugged ground
How To Use rugged In A Sentence
- The strength and ruggedness of the chains provide excellent performance in mud, snow and on ice.
- I shrugged uselessly, before I turned to hear Alex's laugh vibrating in the room.
- The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- She efficiently drugged me out until six in the morning, when I phoned Chris's bleeper and got his return call five minutes later. They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
- The journey north-west from Edinburgh is a delight, with lush pasturelands giving way to the rugged beauty of the Trossachs and then Argyll and the western seaboard.
- The rugged terrain to be negotiated and the 32-km distance to be slogged from Eravikulam hut to Konalar fishing hut at a lower altitude of 1,889 m made the members sweat out in just five hours.
- These islands are rugged, eroded remnants of great volcanic cones. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
- she shrugged indifferently
- When like me you have chosen the tough and rugged regime of living in a lighthouse for two nights, you will know that getting your daily victuals can be a demanding task.
- For two 50-minute sets the crowd shrugged and shimmied to the rhythm of a more blithe and brilliant era.