rigor

rig·or

R0243500 (rĭg′ər)n.1. a. Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment: "The desert fostered a closed world of faith and rigor and harsh judgment: almost every decision here could have lethal consequences" (Jeffrey Tayler).b. A harsh or trying circumstance; a hardship or difficulty: the rigors of working in a coal mine. See Synonyms at difficulty.c. Archaic A harsh or severe act.2. a. Strictness in adhering to standards or a method; exactitude: "To study the brain with scientific rigor, behaviorists logically restricted their experiments to ones in which the brain was the source of measurable effects" (Robert Pollack).b. A standard or exacting requirement, as of a field of study: the intellectual rigors of advanced mathematics.3. Medicine Shivering or trembling, as caused by a chill.4. Physiology A state of rigidity in living tissues or organs that prevents response to stimuli.5. Obsolete Stiffness or rigidity.

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[Middle English rigour, from Old French, from Latin rigor, from rigēre, to be stiff; see reig- in Indo-European roots.]

rigor

(ˈraɪɡɔː; ˈrɪɡə) n1. (Medicine) med a sudden feeling of chilliness, often accompanied by shivering: it sometimes precedes a fever2. (Pathology) pathol rigidity of a muscle; muscular cramp3. (Zoology) a state of rigidity assumed by some animals in reaction to sudden shock4. (Botany) the inertia assumed by some plants in conditions unfavourable to growth[see rigour]

rig•or

(ˈrɪg ər)

n. 1. the quality of being strict; inflexibility. 2. harshness of judgment or attitude; sternness. 3. hardship of living conditions; austerity: the rigor of wartime existence. 4. a severe or harsh act or circumstance. 5. scrupulous accuracy; precision. 6. severity of weather or climate. 7. a sudden coldness, as that preceding certain fevers; chill. 8. muscular rigidity. Also, esp. Brit., rig′our. [1350–1400; Middle English rigour < Latin rigor stiffness =rig(ēre) to be stiff + -or -or¹]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	rigor - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"asperity, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, rigour, grimness, hardshipdifficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"sternness - the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"
	2.	rigor - the quality of being valid and rigorousrigour, validity, cogencybelievability, credibility, credibleness - the quality of being believable or trustworthy
	3.	rigor - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"inclemency, rigorousness, rigourousness, rigour, harshness, severeness, severity, stiffness, hardnesssternness, strictness - uncompromising resolution

rigor

noun1. The fact or condition of being rigorous and unsparing:austerity, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigorousness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness.2. Something that obstructs progress and requires great effort to overcome:asperity, difficulty, hardship, vicissitude (often used in plural).Idioms: a hard nut to crack, a hard row to hoe, heavy sledding.

Translations

austéritérigueuramer. per rigourrigore

rigour

(American) rigor (ˈrigə) noun1. strictness; harshness. 嚴格，嚴厲 严格，性严厉 2. (also ˈrigours noun plural) (of weather etc) the state of being very bad or unpleasant, or the hardship caused by this. the rigour(s) of life in the Arctic Circle. 嚴酷，艱苦 严酷，艰苦 ˈrigorous adjective1. strict. a rigorous training. 嚴格的 严格的2. harsh; unpleasant. a rigorous climate. 嚴酷的 严酷的ˈrigorously adverb 嚴格地 严格地ˈrigorousness noun 嚴厲 严厉性