1. (adj.)rugged having a roughly broken, rocky, hilly, or jagged surface.
2. rugged roughly irregular, heavy, or hard in outline or form: Lincoln's rugged features.
3. rugged (of a face) wrinkled or furrowed.
4. rugged rough, harsh, or severe: a rugged life.
5. rugged capable of enduring hardship, wear, etc.: a rugged floor covering.
6. rugged requiring great endurance, determination, etc.: a rugged test.
7. rugged tempestuous; stormy.
8. rugged rude, uncultivated, or unrefined.
Etymology: (1890–95; Rug(by)+ -er7)
Definition of 'rugged'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (adj)rugged sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
2. (adj)furrowed, rugged having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
3. (adj)broken, rugged topographically very uneven "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
4. (adj)rugged, tough very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"
1. (adjective)rugged rocky and rough rugged terrain
2. rugged (of sb's features) strong and rough in an attractive way his rugged good-looks
Definition of 'rugged'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)rugged full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road
2. (noun)rugged not neat or regular; uneven
3. (noun)rugged rough with bristles or hair; shaggy
4. (noun)rugged harsh; hard; crabbed; austere; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons
Definitions of rugged 
Afrikaans: rof
Arabic: وَعِر، غَيْر مُسْتَوٍ
Bulgarian: скалист
Brazilian: escarpado
Czech: rozeklaný; hrbolatý
German: zerklüftet
Danish: stenet; forreven
Greek: τραχύς, ανώμαλος, απότομο
Spanish: escabroso, accidentado
Estonian: kaljune
Farsi: صخره ای
Finnish: rosoinen
French: déchiqueté, accidenté
Hebrew: סַלעִי
Hindi: अपरिष्कृत, अनगढ़
Croatian: brdovit, neravan
Hungarian: göröngyös
Indonesian: tidak rata
Icelandic: ósléttur, ógreiðfær
Italian: aspro, frastagliato
Japanese: でこぼこした
Korean: 울퉁불퉁한
Lithuanian: nelygus, uolėtas
Latvian: nelīdzens; izrobots
Malay: tidak rata
Dutch: ruig
Norwegian: ulendt, forreven, tagget
Polish: dziki
Persian: صخره ای
Pashto: ډبرین
Portuguese: acidentado
Romanian: stâncos; accidentat
Russian: скалистый; неровный
Slovak: rozoklaný; hrboľatý
Slovenian: skalnat
Serbian: neravan
Swedish: ojämn, taggig, klippig
Thai: ตะปุ่มตะป่ำ
Turkish: engebeli
Taiwanese: 岩石形成的，崎嶇的
Ukrainian: нерівний
Urdu: کھردرا
Vietnamese: gồ ghề
Chinese: 崎岖的，高低不平的
