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Meaning of rugged

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  rugged
      adj 1: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction;
             enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have
             rugged furniture" [ant: {delicate}]
      2: having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or
         wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed
         face lit by a warming smile" [syn: {furrowed}, {rugged}]
         [ant: {unfurrowed}]
      3: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged
         ground" [syn: {broken}, {rugged}]
      4: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a
         rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of
         frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough
         life"; "it was a tough job" [syn: {rugged}, {tough}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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