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Synonyms & Antonyms for rugged
Synonyms
cast-iron, hard, hard-bitten, hardened, hardy, inured, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, toughened, vigorous
Antonyms
delicate, nonhardy, soft, tender, weak
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The Bruins are 0-1 following a poor showing in Cincinnati and now host a rugged Mountain West opponent that has feasted on Pac-12 teams in recent years (Cal, Arizona State and Stanford, to name three). — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, "Pac-12 need-to-knows: UCLA under pressure, injury updates, WSU feels the TV squeeze and Colorado trashes plastic," 6 Sep. 2019 The city of 160,000 is often overlooked by people who come to Monterey County to visit Cannery Row and the aquarium, the pastoral Carmel Valley and rugged, world-famous Big Sur. — Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, "Salinas is more than Steinbeck. An insider’s guide to visiting the city," 5 Sep. 2019 Simons, who designed for Jil Sander and Dior, and then worked as the creative director at Calvin Klein, is known for an aesthetic of precision and minimalist restraint, the opposite of Ruby’s rugged style of willfully messy profusion. — Christina Binkley, The New Yorker, "Sterling Ruby’s Mixed Media," 2 Sep. 2019 Human connection is the principal driver, however, in this evocative portrait of male friendship and loyalty flowering in the rugged wilderness. — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, "'First Cow': Film Review | Telluride 2019," 31 Aug. 2019 Though the rugged mussels that accompanied the crinoids remain as relics of this early mode of marine transport, no other passengers were preserved. — Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian, "Ancient Sea Life May Have Hitched Across Oceans on Giant Living Rafts," 12 Aug. 2019 This tension is embodied, in part, by relative old timer Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), an actor who has built a rugged onscreen image, but who is made utterly fragile by the threat of the new guard. — Erika Stalder, Glamour, "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood," 30 July 2019 Since then, the bus has drawn curious visitors to its rugged site. — The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, "Newlywed woman dies trying to cross an Alaska river to see the ‘Into the Wild’ bus," 27 July 2019 Now, those two identities of malls and protest have converged to transform the materialist glitz of private shopping centers into rugged sites of public demonstration. — Mary Hui, Quartz, "How shopping malls became a battleground in Hong Kong’s protests," 23 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rugged.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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