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- a rugged construction that survived for hundreds of years
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- durable,
- enduring,
- everlasting,
- immortal,
- imperishable,
- lasting,
- permanent,
- stable,
- staunch
- (also stanch),
- staying,
- tenacious,
- unyielding
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- the incredibly rugged conditions that the polar explorers faced
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- the warrior's rugged features frightened the child
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- fixed,
- hard,
- hardened,
- hardheaded,
- immovable,
- implacable,
- inflexible,
- ironhanded,
- mulish,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- rigid,
- self-willed,
- set,
- stiff,
- stubborn,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unrelenting,
- unyielding,
- willful
- (or wilful)
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- a rugged athlete who's competing in weight lifting in the Olympics
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- rugged terrain that made for slow going
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- even more rugged than most ultramarathons, this one crosses a desert
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- arduous,
- Augean,
- backbreaking,
- challenging,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- grueling
- (or gruelling),
- hard,
- heavy,
- hellacious,
- herculean,
- killer,
- laborious,
- moiling,
- murderous,
- pick-and-shovel,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- severe,
- stiff,
- strenuous,
- sweaty,
- tall,
- testing,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- uphill
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- cheap,
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- light,
- mindless,
- simple,
- soft,
- undemanding
- New Hampshire's Mount Washington has some of the ruggedest weather in all of North America
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- the kind of rugged humor that men have traditionally enjoyed at stag parties
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- coarse,
- common,
- crass,
- crude,
- gross,
- ill-bred,
- illiberal
- [archaic],
- incult,
- insensible,
- low,
- lowbred,
- lowbrow,
- raffish,
- rough,
- rough-hewn,
- roughneck,
- rude,
- tasteless,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- vulgar
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- countrified
- (also countryfied),
- provincial,
- rustic
- (also rustical),
- unsophisticated
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The first known use of rugged was in the 14th century
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