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Meaning of tough
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tough
adj 1: not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough
character" [ant: {tender}]
2: 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" [syn: {rugged}, {tough}]
3: physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet" [syn:
{tough}, {toughened}] [ant: {tender}, {untoughened}]
4: substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves";
"sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics
are as tough as metal" [syn: {sturdy}, {tough}]
5: violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough
street gangs" [syn: {ruffianly}, {tough}]
6: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally
used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she
felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless
night" [syn: {bad}, {tough}]
7: resistant to cutting or chewing [ant: {tender}]
8: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
[syn: {hard}, {tough}]
9: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or
believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of
what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at
home" [syn: {baffling}, {elusive}, {knotty}, {problematic},
{problematical}, {tough}]
n 1: someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than
being formally trained in the sport of boxing [syn: {street
fighter}, {tough}]
2: an aggressive and violent young criminal [syn: {hood},
{hoodlum}, {goon}, {punk}, {thug}, {tough}, {toughie},
{strong-armer}]
3: a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: {bully}, {tough}, {hooligan},
{ruffian}, {roughneck}, {rowdy}, {yob}, {yobo}, {yobbo}]
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