tough

Adjective
  1. Not given to gentleness or sentimentality (synset 302457510)
    "a tough character"
    also:
    • hard - dispassionate
    • insensitive - deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive
    similar to:
  2. Very difficult;
    Severely testing stamina or resolution (synset 300751671)
    "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"
    similar to: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
    same as: rugged
  3. Physically toughened (synset 302456417)
    "the tough bottoms of his feet"
    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
  4. Substantially made or constructed (synset 300711239)
    "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"
    similar to: rugged - sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
    same as: sturdy
  5. Violent and lawless (synset 302522699)
    "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"
    similar to: violent - acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
    same as: ruffianly
  6. Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') (synset 300480301)
    "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
    domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    similar to: uncomfortable - providing or experiencing physical discomfort
    same as: bad
  7. Resistant to cutting or chewing (synset 302454704)
    also: inedible, uneatable - not suitable for food
    similar to:
  8. Unfortunate or hard to bear (synset 301131133)
    "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
    similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualities
    same as: hard
  9. Making great mental demands;
    Hard to comprehend or solve or believe (synset 300750063)
    "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
    similar to: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
    same as: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical
Noun
  1. Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing (synset 110682088)
    is a type of: battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper - someone who fights (or is fighting)
    same as: street fighter
  2. An aggressive and violent young criminal (synset 110203700)
    is a type of: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
    subtypes: bully - a hired thug
    same as: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie
  3. A cruel and brutal fellow (synset 109898763)
    is a type of: aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks
    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
    same as: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo

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