Definition for Rigour:

• something hard to endure; " the asperity of northern winters"

Synonyms for Rigour:

• n.

  •asperity (noun)
  • asperity.
  •attribute (noun)
  • cogency,
  • validity,
  • rigor,
  • rigour.
  •exactitude (noun)
  • exactitude.
  •grimness (noun)
  • grimness.
  •hardness (noun)
  • hardness.
  •hardship (noun)
  • hardship.
  •harshness (noun)
  • harshness.
  •inclemency (noun)
  • inclemency.
  •rigorousness (noun)
  • rigorousness.
  •rigour (noun)
  • severity,
  • stiffness.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • tautness,
  • trouble,
  • subtlety,
  • onerousness,
  • conscientiousness,
  • coldness,
  • mortification,
  • toughness,
  • rigidity,
  • tightness,
  • bloodlust,
  • badness,
  • frigidity,
  • irritation,
  • Flintiness,
  • pressure,
  • Unbendingness,
  • ghastliness,
  • edge,
  • murderousness,
  • cool,
  • meticulousness,
  • self-denial,
  • exactness,
  • inflexibility,
  • precision,
  • adversity,
  • tensity,
  • punctiliousness,
  • curse,
  • rigourousness,
  • tribulation,
  • bitterness,
  • relentlessness,
  • literality,
  • acridity,
  • Monachism,
  • atrocity,
  • hardcase,
  • barbarity,
  • force,
  • punctilio,
  • tartness,
  • uncompromisingness,
  • scratchiness,
  • criticalness,
  • crispness,
  • sting,
  • blight,
  • bothersomeness,
  • cross,
  • particularity,
  • vicissitude,
  • right,
  • Renitence,
  • tyranny,
  • freezing,
  • perfection,
  • plight,
  • ruggedness,
  • intensity,
  • inhumanity,
  • accuracy,
  • bleakness,
  • nip,
  • roughness,
  • definiteness,
  • punctuality,
  • trial,
  • bite,
  • affliction,
  • acidity,
  • awkwardness,
  • Finicalness,
  • beastliness,
  • visitation,
  • self-mortification,
  • keenness,
  • hard knocks,
  • adverse circumstances,
  • violence,
  • unfeelingness,
  • trenchancy,
  • fundamentalism,
  • mercilessness,
  • niceness,
  • yoga,
  • iciness,
  • bummer,
  • unyieldingness,
  • rightness,
  • rigidness,
  • Scrupulosity,
  • tenseness,
  • monasticism,
  • mindlessness,
  • literalism,
  • strenuousness,
  • brutality,
  • faultlessness,
  • scrupulousness,
  • viciousness,
  • inexorability,
  • starchiness,
  • malignity,
  • inhospitableness,
  • oppression,
  • abstinence,
  • severeness,
  • inexorableness,
  • intricacy,
  • maceration,
  • venom,
  • coolness,
  • fidelity,
  • low temperature,
  • Rigorism,
  • fasting,
  • absoluteness,
  • orthodoxy,
  • Renitency,
  • troublesomeness,
  • anchoritism,
  • laboriousness,
  • nippiness,
  • aggravation,
  • luridness,
  • care,
  • refinement,
  • causticity,
  • stridency,
  • impetuosity,
  • abstruseness,
  • austerity,
  • puritanism,
  • Algidity,
  • annoyance,
  • ferociousness,
  • teeth,
  • explicitness,
  • correctness,
  • acuteness,
  • point,
  • tension,
  • literalness,
  • exactingness,
  • Precisianism,
  • flawlessness,
  • obduracy,
  • astringency,
  • sharpness,
  • hairiness,
  • fussiness,
  • pitilessness,
  • Abusiveness,
  • complication,
  • Rawness,
  • obstinacy,
  • grip,
  • toilsomeness,
  • exquisiteness,
  • delicacy,
  • freshness,
  • cold-bloodedness,
  • meanness,
  • acerbity,
  • despotism,
  • nicety,
  • cryogenics,
  • vandalism,
  • rigours,
  • fierceness,
  • absolute zero,
  • Eremitism,
  • savagery,
  • complexity,
  • criticality,
  • firmness,
  • frostiness,
  • virulence,
  • stringency,
  • animality,
  • detail,
  • troubles,
  • Unambiguousness,
  • flagellation,
  • Finicality,
  • predicament,
  • arduousness,
  • stress,
  • hard life,
  • destructiveness,
  • fastidiousness,
  • burdensomeness,
  • exigency,
  • Ungentleness,
  • vale of tears,
  • ruthlessness,
  • textualism,
  • impliability,
  • chill,
  • voluntary poverty,
  • anchoritic monasticism,
  • briskness,
  • preciseness,
  • care for truth,
  • freezing point,
  • finickiness,
  • mordancy,
  • Circumstantiality,
  • faithfulness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • obdurateness,
  • attention to fact,
  • gelidity,
  • terrorism,
  • chilliness,
  • cruelty,
  • mordacity,
  • furiousness,
  • poignancy,
  • downer,
  • clumsiness,
  • attention to detail,
  • stubbornness,
  • Purism,
  • asceticism,
  • Difficulties,
  • vehemence,
  • acrimony,
  • minuteness,
  • inclementness,
  • extremity,
  • robustness,
  • fineness.

Paraphrases for Rigour:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    rigor.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    strict, meticulous, thorough, stringent, tough.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    precision, vigour, discipline, meticulousness, austerity, firmness, rigidity, restraint, exactness, consistency, punctuality, inflexibility, harshness, stringent, robustness, determination, seriousness.
  • Adverb
    rigorously, strictly, thoroughly, vigorously.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    rigorous.
  • Proper noun, singular
    thoroughness.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    strictness, rigorous, toughness, thoroughness.
  • Verb, base form
    strictness.

Rigour Sentence Examples:

• This crime is bad enough now; it is a crime which ought at all times to be punished with the utmost rigour.

• The penal laws were enacted with the utmost rigour against Catholics in the colonies, and the only place of refuge was Maryland, founded by the Catholic Lord Baltimore.

Homophones for Rigour:

• reassure, rouser, rockery, ricer, rush hour, rescuer, rasher, raiser, rosary, riser, roguery, racer, rookery, require, razor, regrow, rugger, rocker, rocroi, race car, rusher, rigor, racker, recur, regur, rigger.

Hyponym for Rigour:

• n.

  • attribute
    believability, credibleness, credibility.