Sturdy

Definition: Sturdy

Sturdy

Adjective

1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes".

2. Substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sturdy" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Synonyms: Sturdy

Perseverance

Solid, sturdy, staunch, stanch, true to oneself; unchangeable; unconquerable; (strong); indomitable, game to the last, indefatigable, untiring, unwearied, never tiring.

Petitioner

Beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter.

Strength

Adjective: strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.

Thief

Highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar.

Crosswords: Sturdy

I don't think that Arsenal's home form is a sturdy enough basis for marriage and parenthood, do you? (Fever Pitch; writing credit: Nick Hornby)

Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden when my back is sturdy and strong? (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy (Living for the City; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Her Sturdy Oak (1921)

Captain Sturdy (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Animal Sounds (Golden Sturdy Book) (reference)

• Babies (Golden Sturdy Books) (reference)

• Cyndy Szekeres' I Am a Puppy (Golden Sturdy Book) (reference)

• Disney's Pocahontas: Into the Forest (Golden Sturdy Shape Book) (reference)

• I Am a Monster (A Golden/Sesame Street Sturdy Book) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The immature trophozoite (ring stage) of the P. malariae parasite has a sturdy cytoplasm and usually one large chromatin dot. These parasites may mature into an erythrocytic schizont or gametocytes. Credit: CDC.

Part of the fleet of small sturdy fishing boats that operate from the beach. Credit: Fisheries.

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Attaching a tail wheel to a "Valiant" basic trainer at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney W. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pump set on flange for sturdy mounting. Safe well demonstration near Ridge, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The camp was neat and sturdy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A shunt is a flexible but sturdy silastic tube. A shunt system consists of the shunt, a catheter, and a valve. (references)

Wearing sturdy shoes that fit well can help too, especially shoes without laces that can be slipped on or off easily. (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

American products are perceived to feature the latest technology and to be sturdy and well serviced. (references)

Travel

Ireland

A travel umbrella, rainwear and sturdy walking shoes should also be included in the wardrobe since there is occasional light rain ("liquid sunshine") and many "soft" days. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sturdy": sturdy beggar ♦ sturdy child. Additional references.

Beginning with "sturdy": sturdy-looking.

Ending with "sturdy": extra-sturdy.

Afrikaans

stewig (firm, robust, solid), ferm (firm, robust, solid). (various references)

Albanian

i guximshëm (audacious, brave, courageous, Doughty, gamy, Hardy, valiant), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, trenchant, vigorous, violent), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, vigorous, vital, zippy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاعل, ‏متين (able bodied, consistent, durable, enduring, firm, lasting, robust, safe, secure, solid, sound, stabile, staunch, stout, strong, substantial, tough), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏الجد داء يصيب الخراف (gid), ‏ثابت (abiding, constant, enduring, fast, firm, fixed, habitual, immobile, immovable, immutable, indubitable, invariable, lasting, lingering, perpetual, settled, solid, stabile, stable, standing, stationary, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, stubborn, substantive, unfailing, unmoved), ‏دوار (daze, dizziness, giddiness, revolutionary, revolving, rolling, rotary, rotating, rotational, rotative, rotatory, swim, swimming, swinging, turn, vertigo, voluble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упорит (asinine, constant, defiant, die hard, dogged, flinty, gritty, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard core, hard set, hardheaded, hard-shell, importunate, incompliant, indomitable, insistent, intractable, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, piggish, purposeful, refractory, self willed, self-opinionated, set, spiky, stolid, stout, stouthearted, strenuous, tenacious, tough, unpliant, unremitting, unwearing, wilful, wrongheaded), як (brawny, chopping, fast, fit, flourishing, grunting ox, hard, husky, iron, lusty, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stocky, stout, thickset, tough, two-fisted, vigorous, yak), силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, utter, winning), твърд (adamant, adamantine, constant, crusty, decided, determined, dogged, fast, firm, flat, flinty, forceful, gritty, hard, hardhearted, immovable, obstinate, persistent, proof, rigid, rock-ribbed, rocky, sclerotic, sclerous, set, solid, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, steely, stiff, stout, stringy, strong, swerveless, tenacious, tinny, unfaltering, unflinching, unshakable, unshrinking, unswerving, unwavering), въртоглавие (staggers), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), жизнен (full of life, full-blooded, gut, key, live, lively, lusty, pithy, sappy, vital, vivacious). (various references)

Chinese 

結 (bond, knot, to bear, to bind, to tie), 強健 , 健壮 (robust, sturdily), 勁 (stalwart, strength). (various references)

Czech

statný (burly, gallant, hefty, portly, robust, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, valid), solidní (firm, reputable, responsible, robust, solid, sound, steady, stout), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), zdatný (able, able bodied, efficient, strong, tough), robustní (beefy, Hardy, hefty, robust, thickset), pevný (adamant, compact, concrete, consistent, deep-seated, durable, energetic, fast, firm, fixed, good, hard set, hardwearing, heavy duty, immovable, ingrained, meaty, proof, resilient, resolute, secure, solid, sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stout, strong, substantial, sure, unmoved, unswerving, unyielding, valid). (various references)

Danish

fast (fast, firm, fixed, robust, solid, stable). (various references)

Dutch

robuust (firm, robust), potig (firm, robust), hecht (fast, firm, robust, solid, stable), fors (firm, robust), ferm (bold, brave, courageous, energetic, fearless, firm, gallant, robust, vigorous). (various references)

Esperanto

fortika (firm, robust). (various references)

Faeroese

sterkur (acute, firm, intense, intensive, robust, strong, vigorous), haldgóður (firm, robust). (various references)

Farsi 

محکم (Buff, Firm, Meaty, Secure, Stable, Steady, Steel, Stout, Strict, Strong, Substantial, Tenacious, Tight, Tough), قوی هیکل (Giant, Robust), تنومند (Burly, Corpulent, Huge, Robust, Rugged, Stalwart), ستبر (Big, Burly, Gross, Robust, Stalwart, Stout, Thick), خوش بنیه (Hale, Lusty), درشت (Abrupt, Brutish, Crass, Gross, Gruff, Harsh, Jumbo, Large, Lump, Rough). (various references)

Finnish

pyörimistauti (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness). (various references)

French

robuste (stout, strong). (various references)

Frisian

hecht (firm, robust), gewûpst (firm, robust). (various references)

German

fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firm, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, moored, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sustained, tight, tighten, tightly, tough, unfaltering, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly), stämmig (burly, chunky, plump, stockily, stocky, thickset), kräftig (able bodied, athletic, big, bold, brawny, burly, effectual, firm, florid, forceful, fresh, full, Hale, hard, Hardy, healthy, heartily, hearty, heftily, hefty, husky, keen, loud, loudly, lustily, lusty, massive, nourishing, powerful, powerfully, puissant, rich, robust, robustly, solid, sound, stalwart, strong, strongly, sturdily, substantial, trig, upstanding, vigorous, violent, violently, vivid). (various references)

Greek 

κοινουρίαση (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness), ρωμαλέοσ (brawny, hearty, husky, incisive, lusty, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strong), στερεόσ (blocky, durable, fast, solid, stanch, staunch, steadfast), σθεναρόσ (pithy, puissant, spirited, staminal, stout, vigorous), ισχυρόσ (forceful, hefty, influential, mighty, potent, powerful, puissant, strong), υδατιδώδης ίλιγγος (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness), λοίμωξη διά των νυμφών της ταινίας (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness), ίλιγγος των προβάτων και βοοειδών (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness). (various references)

Hebrew 

איתן (cast iron, firm, immovable, mighty, perennial, permanent, solid, steady, strong, substantial), חסין (immune), חסון (hefty, husky, immunization, inoculation, lusty, powerful, robust, strengthening, strong, thickset), � מרץ (dashing, definite, dynamic, energetic, forcible, keen, snappy, spirited, tearing, trenchant, vigorous). (various references)

Hungarian

izmos (beefy, brawny, chunky, have plenty of beef, hefty, husky, lusty, muscly, muscular, robustful, robustic, robustious, sinewy, strong, thewy). (various references)

Indonesian

tangguh (firm, hard to defeat, strong, tough), perkasa (powerful, strong, super), kuat (dashing, mighty, potent, powerful), kokoh (steady, substantial), gempal (plump), begap, agam (hefty, manly, virile). (various references)

Italian

solido (austere, fast, firm, hard, massy, solid, sound, stable, substantial, tight, toughly), saldo (balance, fast, firm, payment, payoff, settlement, steady, tight), robusto (able bodied, beefy, bouncing, burly, chunky, Hale, Hardy, hearty, hefty, muscular, robust, stout, strapping, strong, tough), forte (aloud, big, brawny, deep, Doughty, fast, fastness, forceful, Fort, forte, hard, hardly, heavy, hefty, high, hot, keen, living, loud, loudly, mighty, nervous, nervy, potent, puissant, racy, robust, rugged, severe, short, shrewd, stiff, stout, strong, tough, vigorous), cenurosi (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness), capostorno (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness), capogatto (coenuriasis, coenurosis, coenurus, gid, megrims, scrapie, staggers, turn-sickness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �丈 (burly, firm, solid, stout, strong), 強壮 (able-bodied, robust, strong). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たくましい (burly, strong), が�"じょう (abdication by an emperor in favor of a more virtuous successor, burly, firm, meditative concentration, preceding article or entry, Samadhi, solid, stout, strong, written request), くっきょう (appropriate, excellent, handy, ideal, muscular, obstinate, robust, superb), きょうそう (able-bodied, boat race, competition, contest, mania, race, regatta, robust, strong, wild excitement). (various references)

Korean 

건장한. (various references)

Malay

gagah (firm, robust). (various references)

Manx

tramylt (hardy, robust, stalwart, stout, vigorous, vigorous as plant), poinnee (stout). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

forte (accomplished, acute, bold, bouncing, brawny, cogent, decuman, firm, forceful, forcible, fort, forte, fortress, full-blooded, hale, hard, heavy, hefty, high, high-hearted, intense, intensive, keen, loud, lusty, manly, masculine, masterful, mighty, nappy, penetrating, pithy, potent, presidio, racy, red-blooded, salt, sanguineous, seaworthy, sharp, sinewy, snorting, solid, stalwart, stark, stout, strapping, strong, substantial, swingeing, telling, tough, two-fisted, unfailing, vehement, venturous, vigorous, wakeless, wholesome). (various references)

Romanian

zdravãn (awfully, healthy, mighty, sane, sinewy, sound, soundly, terrible, vigorous, whole), voinic (bulky, burly, chopping, hale and hearty, Hardy, healthy, hefty, hero, husky, mite, muscular, nervy, powerful, stout, strapping, tight, upstanding, vigorous), trupeş (corpulent, fleshly), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, hollow, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), robust (bouncing, Hale, Hardy, hefty, iron, lusty, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, tough, well knit), hotãrât (adamant, appointed, assertive, categorical, categorically, certain, certainly, dead, decided, definite, definitely, determined, exactly, firm, firmly, flat, flatly, forthright, foursquare, game, gritty, hell-bent, manful, pertinacious, plucky, point blank, positively, purposeful, resolute, resolved, resolvedly, set, stalwart, steadfast, sticky, strong-minded, sure, surely, trenchant, unfaltering, unflinching, unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, vigorous), ferm (decidedly, firm, fixed, hard, hard bitten, inflexible, resistant, resolute, resolved, set, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, tight, unbending, unfaltering, unflinching, unshaken, unswerving, unwavering, unyielding), ţeapãn (benumbed, heavy, starchy, stiff, stout, strait laced, unbending). (various references)

Russian 

крепкий (able bodied, beefy, burly, copper-bottomed, fast, firm, generous, hard, hearty, knitted, lusty, oaky, rocky, rugged, solid, stiff, strong, tenacious, trig, unbeaten, wakeless, well-built, well-set). (various references)

Scottish

brogach (a boy, nm. sturdy boy or young lad). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, hefty, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, robustious, sinewy, stalwart, strong, trenchant, vigorous, vivid, well knit), čvrst (firm, hard, hard and fast, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong, tenacious, tight, trim, unwavering, wiry). (various references)

Spanish

sólido (body, chunky, fast, filling, firm, hard, massy, meaty, robust, solid, stable, stout, strong, substantial, used to), fuerte (able, bad, big, bold, bouncing, brawny, burly, cast iron, cogent, ebullient, fierce, firm, forceful, forcible, Fort, forte, full-blooded, grievous, hard, Hardy, heady, hearty, heavy, hefty, high, intense, long, loud, lurid, lusty, manly, metier, mighty, potent, powerful, raw, ripe, robust, rugged, severe, sharp, sharply, solid, spanking, stiff, stoutly, strident, strong, telling, throbbing, tough, vigorous), robusto (Hale, Hardy, homage, robust, sound, strapping, tough). (various references)

Swedish

kraftig (big, bouncing, crash, forcible, hale, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, high-powered, intense, lusty, meaty, potent, powerful, rich, robust, robustious, round, sinewy, spanking, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, thick-set, vigorous, violent, virtuous). (various references)

Turkish

sebatlı (constant, perseverant, pertinacious, sedulous, stable, steadfast), sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, hearty, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), yapılı (bodied, built, portly, well knit, well-made), gürbüz (bonny, bouncing, robust, rude), güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, keen, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, vigorous, virile, voluminous), dayanıklı (cast iron, consolidated, durable, enduring, fast, firm, for hard wear, gritty, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, impervious, impregnable, indestructible, invulnerable, keeping, lasting, long lasting, nonperishable, patient, proof, refractory, resistant, resistant to, resolute, runproof, sedulous, serviceable, substantial, substantive, supportable, tough, unfading, wiry), azimli (Dauntless, dead-set on, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, high pressure, militant, peppy, persevering, pertinacious, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, undeterred, zealous). (various references)

Ukrainian

стійкий (dyed in the wool, fast, hard bitten, perseverant, persevering, persistent, resistant, resolved, rigid, steady, stout hearted, vertebrate), вертячка, міцна людина, міцний (abiding, able bodied, bastard, beefy, buirdly, deep, endurable, enduring, entrenched, fast, firm, full-bodied, lasting, lusty, oaky, racy, sledge hammer, stable, stalwart, staunch, stiff, stout, strong, substantial, substantive, tenacious, tough, wakeless, well knit). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mạnh mẽ (boot, energetic, furious, fury, impetuous, lusty, manly, mightily, pithily, pretty, rousing, sinewy, vibrant, violent, vivid), kiên quyết (deadset, decidedly, peremptory, resolute, resolved, set, stiff, strong-willed), khoẻ mạnh (brawny, fresh, hale, hardy, robust, rude, sound), cường tráng mãnh liệt (vigorous), cứng cáp. (various references)

Welsh

talgryf (impudent, robust). (various references)

coenuriasis, coenurosis, nosogenum:Coenurus cerebralis = Multiceps multiceps(Vermis), nosogenum:Taenia coenurus,Coenurus cerebralis. (various references)

âsna. (various references)

estourdi. (various references)

Misspellings

"Sturdy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esturmy, saturd, seturday, staurady, sterd, stoddy, strud, strudt, stuady, studdy, studey, sturd, sturgy, sturly, turdy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: durst, dusty, rusty, study, turds, yurts.

-2 letters: drys, dust, duty, rust, ruts, stud, surd, turd, urds, yurt.

-3 letters: dry, rut, sty, try, urd, uts.

-4 letters: us, ut.

+1 letter: restudy.

+2 letters: custardy, industry, mustardy, sturdily, sudatory.

+3 letters: absurdity, curtseyed, desultory, dryasdust, outdoorsy.

+4 letters: byproducts, courtyards, dryasdusts, restudying, understory, understudy.

+5 letters: countryside, desultorily, dexterously, discourtesy, eurypterids, flusteredly, nonindustry, subindustry.