Synonyms and Antonyms of tough

someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing (noun.person)

an aggressive and violent young criminal (noun.person)

a cruel and brutal fellow (noun.person)

very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution (adj.all)

physically toughened (adj.all)

substantially made or constructed (adj.all)

violent and lawless (adj.all)

feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') (adj.all)

unfortunate or hard to bear (adj.all)

making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe (adj.all)

physically untoughened (adj.all)

easy to cut or chew (adj.all)

dispassionate (adj.all)

deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive (adj.all)

sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring (adj.all)

having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation (adj.all)

having strength or power greater than average or expected (adj.all)

not suitable for food (adj.all)

providing or experiencing physical discomfort (adj.all)

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure (adj.all)

tough and callous by virtue of experience (adj.all)

facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination (adj.all)

having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear (adj.all)

made tough by habitual exposure (adj.all)

tanned and coarsened from being outdoors (adj.all)

difficult to chew (adj.all)

requiring much chewing (adj.all)

resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable (adj.all)

(of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew (adj.all)

having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute (adj.all)

having a relatively tough outer covering (adj.all)

sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring (adj.all)

having undesirable or negative qualities (adj.all)

acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity (adj.all)

someone who attacks (noun.person)

someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime (noun.person)

someone who fights (or is fighting) (noun.person)

a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction (noun.person)

a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard (noun.person)

a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrat more.. a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations (noun.person)

someone who bullies weaker people (noun.person)

a hired thug (noun.person)

discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate (verb.communication)

violent and lawless (adj.all)

use physical force against (verb.contact)

used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather (noun.attribute)

impressive difficulty (noun.attribute)

puzzling complexity (noun.attribute)

a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved (noun.state)

the property of something that is strongly built (noun.attribute)

excessive sternness (noun.attribute)

the quality of being difficult to do (noun.attribute)

a cruel and brutal fellow (noun.person)

a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication)