Tough

What do we mean by tough?

Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient. adjective

Hard to cut or chew. adjective

Physically hardy; rugged. adjective

Strong-minded; resolute. adjective

Aggressive; pugnacious. adjective

Inclined to violent or disruptive behavior; rowdy or rough. adjective

Difficult to endure; severe; harsh. adjective

Trying or unpleasant. adjective

Difficult to deal with; demanding or troubling. adjective

Unfortunate; too bad. adjective

Fine; great. adjective

A violent or rowdy person; a hoodlum or thug. noun

(that's tough) Used to indicate recalcitrance or noncompliance with a complaint or demand. idiom

(tough it out) To get through despite hardship; endure. idiom

Having the property of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to a bending force without breaking; also, hard to cut or sever, as with a cutting-instrument: as, tough meat.

Firm; strong; able to endure hardship, hard work, or ill usage; hardy; not easily broken or impaired.

Not easily separated; tenacious; stiff; ropy; viscous: as, a tough clay; tough phlegm.

A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.

Words that are spelled similarly to tough:
tough, though, touch, rough, trough, dough, cough, bough, sough, lough, hough, gough, stough, ough, pough, toug, vough.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tough:
mudder, tackling, guys, cop, guy, stance, enough, decisions, aggressive, exterior, opponent, defender, attitude, rough, opponents, hard, skin, fight, kids, crowd, questions.

Words that rhyme with tough:
buff, stuff, rough, enough, slough, bluff, puff, cuff, rebuff, huff, snuff, duff, fluff, ruff, gruff, scuff, scruff, muff, tuff, guff, chuff, luff, foodstuff, hough, earmuff, spliff, handcuff, sluff, stough, bruff, ruffe, fisticuff, cluff, macduff, dyestuff, off the cuff, ruf, pluff, overstuff, knuff, shruff, shuff, mcduff, cream puff, acuff, sure enough, good enough, hot stuff, marshmallow fluff, in the buff, leboeuf, oddly enough, neck ruff, schuff, cuffe, sob stuff, soon enough, well enough, strangely enough, scottsbluff, small stuff, real stuff, create from raw stuff, trouser cuff, curiously enough, interestingly enough, goodnough, mcgough, dayhuff, lebouef, mcgeough, petstuff, piedboeuf, vakuf.

Adjectives that are often used to describe tough:
old, semi, conspicuous, hang, earthy, perfect, how, red, oil, nine, getting, get.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tough:
time, guy, times, job, questions, decisions, guys, skin, luck, love, question, decision, competition, material, policy, choices, fight, nut, line, membrane, problems, talk, problem, wood, issues, tissue, hide, situation, spot, measures, customer, stance, ones, meat, kid, battle, situations, business, assignment, grass, layer, cookie, call, task, stuff, game, leaves, paper, act, bird, mindedness, stand, sell, laws, substance, materials, proposition, policies, clay, stems, exterior, neighborhood, kids, film, break, lady, fibers, mucus, challenge, standards, choice, attitude, lot, negotiations, shell, roots, town, girl, boys.

Consonant match to tough:
turf, tiff, tuff, taff, taffe, taaffe.

Words that sound like tough:
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