rugged

1. Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction;
   Enduring (synset 300710810)
   "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
   also:

   • robust - sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction
   • strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected
   • tough, toughened - physically toughened
   tells us about: strength - the property of being physically or mentally strong
   similar to:

   • knockabout - suitable for rough use
   • sturdy, tough - substantially made or constructed
2. Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface (synset 302251550)
   "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
   similar to:

   • canaliculate - having thin parallel channels
   • corrugated - shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges
   • rutted, rutty - full of ruts
   same as: furrowed
3. Topographically very uneven (synset 302247490)
   "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
   similar to: rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface
   same as: broken
4. Very difficult;
   Severely testing stamina or resolution (synset 300751671)
   "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"
   similar to: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
   same as: tough

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