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tough

English

  1. 🔊 resistant to cutting or chewing
  2. 🔊 physically toughened
    “the tough bottoms of his feet”
  3. 🔊 not given to gentleness or sentimentality
    “a tough character”
  4. 🔊 feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
    “my throat feels bad”
  5. 🔊 substantially made or constructed
    “sturdy steel shelves”
  6. 🔊 very difficult
    “a rugged competitive examination”
  7. 🔊 unfortunate or hard to bear
    “had hard luck”
  8. 🔊 violent and lawless
    “the more ruffianly element”
  9. 🔊 making great mental demands
    “a baffling problem”
  10. 🔊 a cruel and brutal fellow
  11. 🔊 someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
  12. 🔊 an aggressive and violent young criminal

Spanish

  1. 🔊 tofe tough
  2. 🔊 nervudo tough, robust
  3. 🔊 correoso tough, difficult
  4. 🔊 penoso tough, difficult
  5. 🔊 recio tough, robust, strong, vigorous, solidly-built

Similar words

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