Synonyms for rigor
ˈrɪg ərrig·or

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1. rigor

   Synonyms:
   cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, severity, sternness, vengeance

   Antonyms:
   benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tenderness

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1. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousnessnoun

   something hard to endure

   "the asperity of northern winters"

   Synonyms:
   hardness, cogency, hard knocks, severeness, austereness, harshness, gruesomeness, asperity, luridness, rigour, stiffness, inclemency, badness, adversity, hardship, rigorousness, sharpness, grimness, severity, rigourousness, ghastliness, validity

2. cogency, validity, rigor, rigournoun

   the quality of being valid and rigorous

   Synonyms:
   cogency, severeness, robustness, hardiness, harshness, hardness, asperity, stiffness, validness, inclemency, hardship, rigorousness, lustiness, grimness, severity, rigourousness, rigour, validity

3. severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffnessnoun

   excessive sternness

   "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

   Synonyms:
   insensibility, ruggedness, callosity, grimness, awkwardness, severeness, unfeelingness, austereness, harshness, hardness, asperity, stiffness, callousness, scratchiness, roughness, cogency, gracelessness, inclemency, inclementness, badness, bad weather, hardship, rigorousness, cruelty, cruelness, clumsiness, abrasiveness, severity, rigourousness, rigour, validity

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1. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   stiffness, rigidity, rigidness, inflexibility

2. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   severity, austerity, harshness, sternness, asperity

3. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   strictness, exactness

4. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   inclemency

5. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) sudden coldness with shivering

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1. rigornoun

   Synonyms:
   rigidity, inflexibility, austerity, severity, asperity, sternness, inclemency, stringency

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1. List of paraphrases for "rigor":

   rigour, thoroughness, stiffness, stringency, rigidity, strictness, severity

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How to use rigor in a sentence?

1. Scott Becker:

   It's just deceptive, they're selling these tests, but nobody has checked their quality. We need some level of scientific review and rigor on these tests.

2. Richard Swart:

   Companies across the United States, for the first time since 1933, will be able to seek investments from ordinary Americans without having to go through the expense and rigor of a full-public stock offering.

3. Lori Lightfoot:

   We checked with [attendees] every single day, multiple times a day. We had our people at the screening checkpoints, every single day, they turned hundreds of people away, either who didn’t have the right paperwork or had an expired test that wasn’t [taken] within 72 hours. That tells me there is a rigor around the protocols that they were using to screen people.

4. Bernard Mandeville:

   If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?

5. Paul Hill:

   The panel has a larger concern with the rigor of Boeing's verification processes.