tough
Adjective
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also:
- hard - dispassionate
- insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
similar to:- hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious - tough and callous by virtue of experience
- tough-minded, unsentimental - facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination
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similar to: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or enduresame as: rugged
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also:
- rugged - sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
- experienced, experient - having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
- strong - having strength or power greater than average or expected
similar to:same as: toughened -
similar to: rugged - sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduringsame as: sturdy
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similar to: violent - acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensitysame as: ruffianly
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domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechsimilar to: uncomfortable - providing or experiencing physical discomfortsame as: bad
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similar to:
- cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery - difficult to chew
- chewy - requiring much chewing
- coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery - resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable
- fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable - (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- fibrous, hempen - having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
- tough-skinned - having a relatively tough outer covering
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similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualitiessame as: hard
Noun
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is a type of: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper - someone who fights (or is fighting)same as: street fighter
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is a type of: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crimesubtypes: bully - a hired thug
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subtypes:
- bullyboy - a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction
- muscle, muscleman - a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard
- skin, skinhead - a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
- plug-ugly, tough guy - someone who bullies weaker people
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