tough

/tʌf/
Adjective
  1. 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
  2. unfortunate or hard to bear
    • had hard luck
    • a tough break
  3. resistant to cutting or chewing
  4. 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
  5. violent and lawless
    • the more ruffianly element
    • tough street gangs
  6. substantially made or constructed
    • sturdy steel shelves
    • sturdy canvas
    • a tough all-weather fabric
    • some plastics are as tough as metal
  7. physically toughened
    • the tough bottoms of his feet
  8. 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
  9. not given to gentleness or sentimentality
    • a tough character
Noun
  1. a cruel and brutal fellow
  2. an aggressive and violent young criminal
  3. someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

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