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Tough

adjective
(compar. tougher; superl. toughest)
1.
Not given to gentleness or sentimentality.
2.
Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution.  Synonym: rugged.  "The rugged conditions of frontier life" , "The competition was tough" , "It's a tough life" , "It was a tough job"
3.
Physically toughened.  Synonym: toughened.
4.
Substantially made or constructed.  Synonym: sturdy.  "Sturdy canvas" , "A tough all-weather fabric" , "Some plastics are as tough as metal"
5.
Violent and lawless.  Synonym: ruffianly.  "Tough street gangs"
6.
Feeling physical discomfort or pain ('tough' is occasionally used colloquially for 'bad').  Synonym: bad.  "She felt bad all over" , "He was feeling tough after a restless night"
7.
Resistant to cutting or chewing.
8.
Unfortunate or hard to bear.  Synonym: hard.  "A tough break"
9.
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.  Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical.  "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast" , "A problematic situation at home"
noun
1.
Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing.  Synonym: street fighter.
2.
An aggressive and violent young criminal.  Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie.
3.
A cruel and brutal fellow.  Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo.



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"Tough" Quotes from Famous Books



... to these the Queens exert their might; One the left side, and t'other guards the right: Where each, by her respective armour known. Chooses the colour that is like her own. 60 Then the young Archers, two that snowy-white Bend the tough yew, and two as black as night; (Greece call'd them Mars's favourites heretofore, From their delight in war, and thirst of gore). These on each side the Monarch and his Queen 65 Surround obedient; next to these are seen The crested Knights in golden armour ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith • Oliver Goldsmith
... Boers hadn't buried themselves instead of the guns!" Carew remarked, as he wrestled with a tough thong of bully beef which yielded to his jaws much as an India-rubber ...
— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller
... be president, Shorty?" Lorry felt the warmth of a new life, felt the little body wriggle in snug contentment. "I wouldn't advise it. Tough job." Baby Newcomb twisted in his ...
— I'll Kill You Tomorrow • Helen Huber
... a tough nature, and minded neither heat nor cold; only when a large bluebottle fly buzzed round his nose he whisked his broad hat to drive the tormentor away, and said to himself that summer had its drawbacks even in Germany, though there were certainly more flies and mosquitoes ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford
... street where he had first seen the beloved form of Ericson, a certain old mood began to revive in him. He had been working at quadratic equations all the morning; he had been foiled in the attempt to find the true algebraic statement of a very tough question involving various ratios; and, vexed with himself, he had risen to look out, as the only available zeitvertreib. It was one of those rainy days of spring which it needs a hopeful mood to distinguish from autumnal ones—dull, depressing, ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald


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