THESAURUS
rigor
Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, absolute zero, absoluteness, abstinence, abstruseness, accuracy, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, algidity, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, animality, annoyance, arduousness, asceticism, asperity, astringency, atrocity, attention to detail, attention to fact, austerity, barbarity, bite, bitterness, bleakness, blight, bloodlust, bothersomeness, briskness, brutality, bummer, burdensomeness, care, care for truth, causticity, chill, chilliness, circumstantiality, cold, coldness, complexity, complication, conscientiousness, cool, coolness, coolth, correctness, crispness, criticality, criticalness, cross, cryogenics, cryology, curse, decrease in temperature, delicacy, destructiveness, detail, difficulties, difficultness, difficulty, downer, edge, eremitism, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, extremity, faithfulness, fasting, faultlessness, ferociousness, fidelity, fierceness, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, firmness, flagellation, flawlessness, force, freezing point, freshness, frigidity, frostiness, fundamentalism, furiousness, fussiness, gelidity, grip, hairiness, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness, hardship, harshness, iciness, impetuosity, impliability, inclemency, inexorability, inflexibility, inhospitableness, inhumanity, intense cold, intensity, intricacy, irritation, keenness, laboriousness, literalism, literality, literalness, low temperature, maceration, malignity, mathematical precision, mendicantism, mercilessness, meticulousness, mindlessness, minuteness, monachism, monasticism, mordacity, mordancy, mortification, murderousness, niceness, nicety, nip, nippiness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness, orthodoxy, particularity, particularness, perfection, pitilessness, plight, poignancy, point, preciseness, precisianism, precision, predicament, pressure, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality, purism, puritanism, rawness, refinement, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigorism, rigorousness, roughness, ruggedness, savagery, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sea of troubles, self-denial, self-mortification, severity, sharp air, sharpness, starchiness, sternness, stiffness, sting, strenuousness, stress, stress of life, strictness, stridency, stringency, stubbornness, subtlety, tartness, tautness, teeth, tenseness, tension, tensity, terrorism, textualism, the letter, tightness, toilsomeness, toughness, trenchancy, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, troublesomeness, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, ungentleness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vale of tears, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, vicissitude, violence, virulence, visitation, voluntary poverty
ROGET THESAURUS
rigor
Severity
N
severity, strictness, harshness,
rigor, stringency, austerity, inclemency, arrogance, precisianism, arbitrary power, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression, assumption, usurpation, inquisition, reign of terror, martial law, iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway, tight grasp, brute force, brute strength, coercion, strong hand, tight hand, hard lines, hard measure, tender mercies, sharp practice, pipe-clay, officialism, tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture, accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors, severe, strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative, coercive, tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial, inclement, cruel, haughty, arrogant, precisian, severely, with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a tight hand, with a heavy hand, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, Delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, manu forti, ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno.
Cold
N
cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation,
rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.
Truth
N
truth, fact, reality, plain fact, plain matter of fact, nature, truth, verity, gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth, orthodoxy, authenticity, veracity, correctness, correctitude, accuracy, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, delicacy,
rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality, clockwork precision, conformity to rule, nicety, orthology, ipsissima verba, realism, plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth, nuda veritas, the very thing, not an illusion, real Simon Pure, unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, just the thing, real, actual, veritable, true, right, correct, certain, substantially true, categorically true, definitively true, true to the letter, true as gospel, unimpeachable, veracious, unreconfuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined, realistic, exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so, strict, severe, close, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific, faithful, constant, unerring, curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine, clean-cut, clear-cut, verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated), rigorously true, unquestionably true, true by definition, genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, natural, sound, sterling, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored, in its true colors, pukka, well-grounded, well founded, solid, substantial, tangible, valid, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering, truly, verily, indeed, really, in reality, with truth, certainly, actually, in effect, exactly, ad amussim, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis, ad unguem, to an inch, to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T, au pied de la lettre, neither more nor less, in every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, strictly speaking, the truth is, the fact is, rem acu tetigisti, en suivant la verite, ex facto jus oritur, la verita e figlia del empo, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, crazy people and children tell the truth, nihil est veritatis luce dulcius, veritas nunquam perit, veritatem dies aperit, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.
