Usually means: Strongly resistant to failure, adaptable.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. robust: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. robust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. robust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. robust: Collins English Dictionary
  5. robust: Vocabulary.com
  6. Robust, robust: Wordnik
  7. robust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. robust: Wiktionary
  9. robust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. robust: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. robust: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Robust, robust: Dictionary.com
  13. robust: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. robust: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Robust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Robust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. robust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. robust: Rhymezone
  19. robust, robust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. robust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. robust: Free Dictionary
  22. robust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. robust: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. robust-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. ROBUST: Accounting Glossary
  3. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  4. Robust: Investopedia
  5. robust: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. robust: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. robust: Netlingo
  3. robust: CCI Computer
  4. robust: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Robust: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. robust: Medical dictionary
  4. Robust: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ROBUST: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  3. Robust: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. robust: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Robust: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  2. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See robustly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy.
adjective:  Violent; rough; rude.
adjective:  Requiring strength or vigor.
adjective:  Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety.
adjective:  (systems engineering) Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage.
adjective:  (software engineering) Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions.
adjective:  (statistics) Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors.
adjective:  (chiefly zoology, anthropology, paleontology) Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile.

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