ruggedness
- noun
- /ˈrʌɡɪdnəs/
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dificultad
Examples
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Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness.
Blog text (14) -
Then you also want to have all those other things like ruggedness and, you know, infinite battery life and, and, you know, make it huge, make it small, all those things.
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Unlike Dr. Johnson, who admired Shakespeare most when he was writing with "ease and simplicity," and regretted his tendency towards "ruggedness or difficulty," we now, she remarks, "take pleasure in all the various modes of complex meaning," the more various and complex occurring naturally in rugged and difficult passages rather than in easy and simple ones; and so we convince ourselves that our response is closer.
Academic text (1998) -
Climbing the steep mountain revealed the ruggedness of the terrain, making the hike both challenging and exciting.
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The ruggedness of the old trail tested the limits of the hikers' endurance and skill.
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This sport develops a certain ruggedness of character that is refreshing in these days of too much civilization.
Synonyms
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3.1
A difficult task that tests a person's skill and will
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7.5
A state of needing a lot of physical or mental effort
A lot of hard work needed to do a task
How difficult something is to do or understand
A state of needing a lot of hard work and time
A situation that needs long, hard work and makes you tired
Antonyms
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ruggedness can also mean 'difficult' — a helpful way to remember this is to think of a rugged path full of rocks and steep parts, and so ruggedness describes something that is demanding or challenging to do.