tough

What does tough mean?

• A valid word accepted in tournament Scrabble and Words With Friends play.

• adjective

  making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• adjective

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

• adjective

  not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• adjective

  resistant to cutting or chewing

• adjective

  very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• noun

  someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• adjective

  unfortunate or hard to bear

• adjective

  violent and lawless

• adjective

  physically toughened

• noun

  an aggressive and violent young criminal

• noun

  a cruel and brutal fellow

• adjective

  substantially made or constructed

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