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Adjective: tough (tougher,toughest) túf- Not given to gentleness or sentimentality
"a tough character" - Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
"the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" - rugged - Physically toughened
"the tough bottoms of his feet" - toughened - Substantially made or constructed
"a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal" - sturdy - Violent and lawless
"tough street gangs" - ruffianly - Feeling physical discomfort or pain ('tough' is occasionally used colloquially for 'bad')
"he was feeling tough after a restless night" - bad - Resistant to cutting or chewing
- Unfortunate or hard to bear
"a tough break" - hard - Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical Noun: tough túf- Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
- street fighter - An aggressive and violent young criminal
- hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer - An uncultured, aggressive, rude, noisy troublemaker
- bully, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob [Brit], yobo [Brit], yobbo [Brit]
Sounds like: tuff Derived forms: tougher, toughs, toughest See also: bad, callous, calloused, cartilaginous, chewy, coriaceous, difficult, enured, experienced, experient, fibrous, gristly, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hardened, hempen, inedible, insensitive, inured, leathered, leatherlike, leathery, pugnacious, rubbery, rugged, sinewy, stringy, strong, thickened, toughly, tough-minded, toughness, tough-skinned, unchewable, uncomfortable, uneatable, unsentimental, violent, weather-beaten Type of: aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, battler, belligerent, combatant, criminal, crook, felon, fighter, malefactor, outlaw, scrapper Antonym: tender Encyclopedia: Tough Tough, Scotland Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys |