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UK
/ɹˈʌɡɪdnəs/
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NOUN
- the property of being big and strong
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the quality of being difficult to do
he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness
the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail -
the quality of being topologically uneven
the ruggedness of the mountains
How To Use ruggedness In A Sentence
- The strength and ruggedness of the chains provide excellent performance in mud, snow and on ice.
- the ruggedness of the mountains
- On video, the shots just seem to bounce off him - he is not known for his skill but for his ruggedness and aggression, so it should be an exciting fight.
- Due to its cliffs and ruggedness, it is very hard for visitors to climb Sanqing Mountain on foot, but the most eye-catching scenery only can be appreciated from on top of the mountain.
- The design was created for simplicity and ruggedness and the main structure was all metal.
- Nothing, in fact, disturbs the grandeur and solemnity of the Mosaical cosmogony, except (as usual) the ruggedness of the bibliolater. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
- The tiny drive has two key attributes that make it useful to its target market: low power usage and ruggedness.
- The bogginess and ruggedness of our route, for the remainder of the day, sufficiently tried our strength: we accomplished however thirteen miles, and halted in a small valley about four miles south of Whitwell Hill. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
- The island's ruggedness symbolises our history and the character of the people.
- the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail