Synonyms:
tough
Meaning: not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
Synonyms:
rugged, tough
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
tough, toughened
Meaning: physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
Synonyms:
sturdy, tough
Meaning: substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"
Synonyms:
ruffianly, tough
Meaning: violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"
Synonyms:
bad, tough
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
The statements was interesting, but tough.
The covering on the lines is rather tough, however.
The bread was moldy and the beef too tough even for well men to eat.
"My skin is so thick and tough that nothing can get through it to hurt me.
The runaway team was tugged to an inglorious halt by Remsen's tough muscles.
'Well, well, I will go back and do my best to face it, but it's a tough job.'
If the meat is tough, it will be better to stew it half an hour before frying it.
The fabric is too thick and tough to have yielded to the twitches of the feeble little prisoners.
He had one nasty slip, which might have been his last if he had not grabbed a tough clump of weeds at the crucial instant.
The short, rigid needles in fascicles of two are arranged in comparatively long cylindrical tassels at the ends of the tough up-curving branches.