Meaning & use
robusto
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Meanings
nouncountable
A cigar of medium length that is wide and thick, about five inches long.
Grammar: Countable: a robusto, two robustos.
Patterns
- a robusto from somewhere
He lit a robusto on the terrace after dinner.
The shop sells a Nicaraguan robusto at a fair price.
A robusto burns for roughly an hour.
adjectiveafter a verbmusictechnical
Used in music to mean played in a strong, vigorous and forceful way.
Grammar: A direction written on a score: play it robusto.
Patterns
- play something robusto
The conductor wanted the brass to play the opening robusto.
The score marks the dance robusto, so the strings dig in hard.
She attacked the finale robusto, with plenty of weight.
Word forms
| plural | robustos |
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Common combinations
- smoke a robusto
- They smoked a robusto each on the balcony.
- Cuban robusto
- A Cuban robusto was the gift of the evening.
- robusto cigar
- A robusto cigar suits a leisurely afternoon.
- light up a robusto
- He lit up a robusto to celebrate the news.
Synonyms and how they differ
- corona
- A corona is a longer and thinner cigar than a robusto.
- churchill
- A churchill is bigger and longer than a robusto and takes more time to smoke.
- forte
- Forte, used for loud playing, is a volume mark, while robusto asks for strength of tone.
Opposites
Word family
- robust adjective
- strong and healthy or sturdy
- robustness noun
- the quality of being strong
- robustly adverb
- in a strong or firm way
Commonly confused: robusto or robust?
robusto vs robust
Robust is the ordinary English adjective for strong, while robusto is mainly a cigar size or Italian music direction.
Practice
The cigar shop owner recommended a ___ because it is thick, medium in length and burns slowly.
Choose one answer.
Robusto names a thick, medium-length cigar. Presto, staccato and adagio are all music words that do not describe a cigar.
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