Dictionary Entry
rigor
rigor is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Rigidity; stiffness. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Rigidity; stiffness.
- 2noun
A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
- 3noun
The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
- 4noun
See 1st Rigor, 2.
- 5noun
Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
- 6noun
Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
- 7noun
Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
- 8noun
Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
- 9noun
Violence; force; fury.
- 10noun
excessive sternness
"severity of character"
"the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"
- 11noun
something hard to endure
"the asperity of northern winters"
- 12noun
the quality of being valid and rigorous
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