rugged

1. 1.

   sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

   “with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture”

   Antonymsdelicate

   Similarknockaboutsturdy
2. 2.

   having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface

   “furrowed fields”

   “his furrowed face lit by a warming smile”

   Synonymsfurrowed

   Similarcanaliculatecorrugatedrutted
3. 3.

   topographically very uneven

   “broken terrain”

   “rugged ground”

   Synonymsbroken

   Similarrough
4. 4.

   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”

   Synonymstough

   Similardifficult

Other forms of rugged

comparative

ruggedder·

superlative

ruggeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rugged

What does rugged mean?

rugged means "sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rugged?

rugged has 2 syllables: rug-ged. The stress falls on "rug". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌɡəd/.

What is another word for rugged?

Close synonyms include furrowed, broken, tough. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of rugged?

The recorded antonyms are delicate.

Is rugged a common word?

rugged is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.