rugged

Infinitive complement

• withstand: These trousers feel very soft and comfortable, they will be cool to wear yet are rugged enough to withstand hard wear and tear.

Modifies a noun

• coastline: In addition, the rugged Irish coastline seen from every window cannot fail to inspire.
• terrain: Despite the rugged terrain, the pace is varied, with regular faster sections.
• cliff: Sharing the coastline with rugged cliffs are scores of dazzling white sand beaches.
• moorland: The terrain often features rugged, boggy moorland, or high mountains.
• mountain: At a distance rugged mountains with a broken outline close in the whole.
• individualism: James Hillman Trapped in our tradition of rugged individualism, we are an extraordinarily lonely people.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: This little unit is lightweight and compact yet extremely rugged with all metal construction designed to sustain arduous conditions.
• very: The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
• particularly: This is a particularly rugged area of the western Highlands.
• often: The difficulties are arresting dozens of riders on horseback in open, often rugged, countryside are enormous.
• too: Ferries and charter boats ply between islands and when the terrain becomes too rugged, river transport takes over.
• so: Everything here, so rugged and wild, minimizes even the most cherished of our self-important activities.

Used with adjective complement

• become: In Bavaria, further south, the land becomes rugged.
• produce: In producing rugged in which white someone is you his party's top.
• use: The surveyors initially migrated to using rugged, handheld computers running Windows CE.
• look: By this time, the land below was looking even more rugged, not the place to have an engine problem!
• offer: Parvus offers rugged, commercial-off-the-shelf ( COTS ) computing solutions ideal for avionics, military, medical, industrial, and transportation OEMs.