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tough
English
- 🔊 resistant to cutting or chewing
- 🔊 physically toughened“the tough bottoms of his feet”
- 🔊 not given to gentleness or sentimentality“a tough character”
- 🔊 feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')“my throat feels bad”
- 🔊 substantially made or constructed“sturdy steel shelves”
- 🔊 very difficult“a rugged competitive examination”
- 🔊 unfortunate or hard to bear“had hard luck”
- 🔊 violent and lawless“the more ruffianly element”
- 🔊 making great mental demands“a baffling problem”
- 🔊 a cruel and brutal fellow
- 🔊 someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
- 🔊 an aggressive and violent young criminal
Spanish
- 🔊 tofe tough
- 🔊 nervudo tough, robust
- 🔊 correoso tough, difficult
- 🔊 penoso tough, difficult
- 🔊 recio tough, robust, strong, vigorous, solidly-built