Crossword-Solution: RIGOROUS 8 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Rigorous a. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no
abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe;
relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of
law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
Rigorous a. Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Rigorous a. Violent.

We have 33 clues for the answer “RIGOROUS”

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Extremely thorough 1 answer
Severely strict 2 answers
Harsh or severe 2 answers
Draconic 3 answers
Disciplined 5 answers
Strait-___ 10 answers
NEEDING order 17 answers
LEAVING no option 18 answers
GIVING of order 18 answers
BROOKING no refusal 18 answers
drastic 18 answers
brassbound 19 answers
intemperate 24 answers
Illiberal 28 answers
unenlarged 28 answers
Spartan 30 answers
Jaundiced 33 answers
hidebound 34 answers
Fastidious 40 answers
Opinionated 40 answers
Ungenerous 41 answers
bigoted 41 answers
intolerant 51 answers
Inexorable 56 answers
unmerciful 59 answers
Heartless 68 answers
Brutal 75 answers
Severe 76 answers
Inflexible 81 answers
Demanding 82 answers
Heavy 90 answers
Harsh 91 answers
Little ___. 100 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RIGOROUS (5)

And there was Weena dancing at my side! “Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
The night, however, was far gone into the morning—the morning, black as it was, was nearly ripe for the conception of the day—the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber; and I determined, flushed as I was with hope and triumph, to venture in my new shape as far as to my bedroom.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992
Three nonTEI presentations described approaches to preparing machine-readable text that are less rigorous and thus less expensive.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
But it has rarely happened that anything has been objected to me which I had myself altogether overlooked, unless it were something far removed from the subject: so that I have never met with a single critic of my opinions who did not appear to me either less rigorous or less equitable than myself.
A Discourse on Method René Descartes 1995
For Sapt and I, after anxious consultations, had resolved that we must risk a blow, our resolution being clinched by Johann’s news that the King grew peaked, pale, and ill, and that his health was breaking down under his rigorous confinement.
The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope 1993

Quotes with RIGOROUS (3)

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.
John Dewey A Common Faith
At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space o…
Simone Weil
But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the nature of its surface, to what bodies it should turn its light, to which its dark side, without first letting the harmony of centrifugal and centripetal forces realize [*realisere*] its existence [*Existents*] and letting the rest come of itself. One must learn first to know himself bef…
Soren Kierkegaard
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1977–2024).