sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
Used in a Sentence
rugged
How to use rugged in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for rugged.
Editorial note
Ie, packs of young rugged looking dudes eyeing you off.
Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of rugged gathered in one view.
having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for rugged.
adjective
sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
adjective
having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
See also: furrowed
adjective
topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
See also: broken
adjective
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"
See also: tough
Example sentences
Ie, packs of young rugged looking dudes eyeing you off.
The S4 rugged version has the same limitation.
Outdoor enthusiasts switch their SIM between their smartphone and a rugged dumbphone.
A photographer who backpacks around the world, often in rugged terrain?
The solid aluminum design is just insanely rugged, especially with the light weight of the Air.
The "Mexican" story appears grainy, rough, and hot to go with the rugged Mexican landscape and congested cities.
It would be interesting to see just how rugged it is. I'd also like to see how this could be used in an environment that requires a little less "ruggedness", like a coffee shop or a community board room.
I'm really surprised that these supposedly rugged individuals are so quick to toe the corporate line of Twitter and Facebook.
You are off by at least an order of magnitude in your price estimates, milspec rugged robots are expensive but on the order of $30,000 - $100,000 each not $1 million.
It’s rugged build and cloud managed interface make it ideal for “away teams”, monitoring systems in remote locations, and businesses with challenging infrastructure.
Even more scary; why do almost all consumer and non-consumer screens like airports, train station, info screens, army rugged laptops, missile guidance systems, most nuclear reactor systems, medical equipment etc run some form of Windows?
Rural areas I have lived in, for example, don't tend to have political ideologies resembling the sort of conservatism that can come out of big cities in part because with fewer people around, there tends to be less of a heavy trend towards rugged individualism.
Isn't it funny how people scoff at ruggedized phones for being "ugly" but then go and slap all kinds of chintzy cases and screen protectors to their fragile phones, making them much uglier than the rugged variant and just barely more resistant to damage than without all that crap?Mind I have never broken a phone, and I take good care of all the units I have had, only replacing them due to obsolescence.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use rugged in a sentence?
Ie, packs of young rugged looking dudes eyeing you off.
What does rugged mean?
sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
What part of speech is rugged?
rugged is commonly used as adjective.