Strengthen Words: “corroborant” to “unrobust”Words that include: robor-, rob- (Latin: strengthening; to strengthen, invigorate; strength)From Latin robustus, hale, strong, from robur, oak, hard, strong. See more at robust, below.
corroborant:
1. Strengthening, invigorating, especially in reference to medicinal agents.
2. A strengthening agent; a strengthener or invigorator of the bodily system; a tonic. 3. Something that corroborates (a statement, etc.); a corroboratory fact. corroborate, corroborated:
1. To give or represent evidence of the truth of something.
2. To give legal or formal confirmation to; to confirm (a law, legal act, etc.). 3. To strengthen (an opinion, statement, argument, etc.) by concurrent or agreeing statements or evidence; to make more sure or certain; to support, confirm: said of a person or of a confirming statement. 4. Some definitions from the past that are now considered obsolete or archaic: a. To strengthen constitutionally, or organically; to invigorate, refresh. b. With non-material objects: To strengthen (a quality, faculty, power, etc.); to confirm (a person) in a quality or attribute. corroborating:
Confirming or supporting with evidence.
corroboration:
The confirmation (of a statement, etc.) with additional evidence.
corroborative:
1. Of a legal act, statement, evidence, etc.: Confirmatory.
2. A strengthening or fortifying agent or measure; especially in medicine. corroborator:
Someone who or that which corroborates.
roborant:
A strengthening drug, medicine, or tonic; strengthening; restorative.
roboration:
Confirmation; strengthening; support; invigoration.
roborean:
Made of oak, or like strong timber.
roboreous:
Of the nature of or pertaining to oak.
robust, robustful:
1. A reference to persons: Strong and hardy in body or constitution; possessed of rude strength; strongly and stoutly built; of a full and healthy habit.
2. Of plants: Strong and healthy; sturdy. 3. Of animal structures: Stout, thick-set, strongly made. 4. Pertaining to, or requiring, bodily strength or hardiness; vigorous. 5. Vigorous in mind, voice, etc. 6. Built, constructed, or designed to be sturdy, durable, or hard-wearing. 7. When referring to food: Rich, strong-tasting, and fullbodied. 8. Applied to a statistical test that yields approximately correct results despite the falsity of certain of the assumptions on which it is based; also, to a calculation, process, or result if the result is largely independent of certain aspects of the input. Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary defines robust: In statistics, a somewhat imprecise term that is applied to a procedure that is relatively insensitive to violations of the assumptions on which it is based or to procedures that are based on weaker (more easily satisfied) assumptions, e.g., nonparametric tests [Whatever that means, ed.]. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition, defines robustness just as clearly: In statistics, the degree to which the probability of drawing a wrong conclusion from the test result is not seriously affected by moderate departures from the assumptions implicit in the model on which the test is based. Robust is related to red. It comes ultimately from Indo-European reudh; source of English red. This resulted in Latin robus, which was applied to a particular sort of oak tree with reddish wood. The oak being synonymous with strength, robus in due course came to mean “strength.” This was carried over into the derived robustus, “firm, strong, solid,” from which English gets robust, and also into the verb roborare “strengthen,” source of English corroborate. robustious:
1. Of persons: Robust; stout and strong or healthy-looking; so of the body or its parts, constitution, appearance, etc.
2. Violent, boisterous, noisy, strongly self-assertive; a reference to persons, their disposition, etc. and of actions, movements, etc. 3. A reference to storms or climate; violent, severe weather. robustly:
In a robust manner; strongly.
robustness:
Robust character or quality.
uncorroborated:
Not confirmed nor supported by evidence; weakened.
unrobust:
Weak, unhealthy in action and appearance; lacking vigor.
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