Rugged and Wild

Rugged

Rugged adjective - Difficult to endure.
Usage example: the incredibly rugged conditions that the polar explorers faced

Wild is a synonym for rugged in calm topic. In some cases you can use "Wild" instead an adjective "Rugged".

Nearby Words: ruggedly, rugger

Wild

Wild adjective - Marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements.
Usage example: a wild night, full of wind and rain

Rugged is a synonym for wild in calm topic. Sometimes you can use "Rugged" instead an adjective "Wild".

Nearby Words: wildly, wilding, wilde

Both words in one sentence

  • Villains often show the dominance, the rugged and wild physique, and the aloof Jerkass attitude that most teenage girls crave and that Heroes are much less likely to have.
  • Prince Philionel, the ugly dad in question, is described as looking like a rather homely dwarf taller than the average man, or else a particularly wild and rugged-looking bandit chieftain fresh off the mountain.
  • Fanfic / Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance Non-Action Guy: Lelouch is easily physically inferior to Mao, whose rugged life in the wild has apparently made him quite fit.
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