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rugged

adj
/ˈɹʌɡ.ɪd//ɹʌɡd/

Etymology

From Middle English rugged, roggyd, ruggyd, derived from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft, shagginess”), equivalent to rug (“rough, woollen material”) + -ed. Compare Old Swedish ruggoter (“wrinkled”), Swedish rugga (“to roughen”), Swedish ruggig (“shaggy”), Icelandic rögg (“shagginess”), Old Norse raggaðr (“tufted”), dialectal Danish raggad (“shaggy”).

  1. derived from rǫgg — “tuft, shagginess”
  2. inherited from rugged

Definitions

  1. Broken into sharp or irregular points

    Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.

    • BY and by, after a rugged climb, we halted on the summit of a hill which commanded a far-reaching view.

  2. Not neat or regular

    Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.

    • Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.

  3. Rough with bristly hair

    Rough with bristly hair; shaggy.

    • His hair was light and rather thin; his face strong and rugged from exposure, and his eyes narrow and observant.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Strong, sturdy, well-built.

      • Many women and men delude themselves into thinking that only the hardest and most rugged man is attractive and to many it may be the case.

    2. Rocky and bare of plantlife.

      • As the train wound along the river valleys through western Pennsylvania the scenery grew more rugged and the painted houses of Lancaster County gave way to dirty clapboard dwellings and shack homes clinging to the mountainside.
      • Hidden within 30,000 acres of rugged private land, the ranch is cocooned by peaks and canyons in all directions.
      • Much of the area can be seen only by hikers who travel without trails to the higher reaches of this rugged mountain range.

    3. Harsh

      Harsh; austere; hard

    4. Stormy

      Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous

    5. Sour

      Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled

      • "Ah!" sighed the unimaginative Granby, and his honest, rugged face grew clouded. Pepper puffed in silence for a moment or two; then spoke.

    6. Violent

      Violent; rude; boisterous

    7. Vigorous

      Vigorous; robust; hardy

      • "Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength..."

    8. Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.

      • Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red.

    9. Having a rug or rugs.

    10. Covered with a rug.

      • Please put sharp objects on the rugged shelf.

    11. simple past and past participle of rug

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rugged. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01rugged02uneven03spots04spot05texture06softness07soft

A definitional loop anchored at rugged. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at rugged

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA