[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tough \tough\, a. compar. tougher; superl. toughest. oe.
   tough, as. t=oh, akin to d. taai, lg. taa, tage, tau, ohg.
   z=ahi, g. zaumhe, and also to as. getenge near to, close
   to, oppressive, os. bitengi.
   1. having the quality of flexibility without brittleness;
      yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting
      great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably
      tough. "tough roots and stubs. " --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong;
      -- of objects and people; as, tough sinews. --cowper.
      1913 webster

            a body made of brass, the crone demands, . . .
            tough to the last, and with no toil to tire.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

            the basis of his character was caution combined with
            tough tenacity of purpose.            --j. a.
                                                  symonds.
      1913 webster

   3. not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as,
      tough phlegm.
      1913 webster

   4. stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.
      1913 webster

            so tough a frame she could not bend.  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   5. severe; violent; as, a tough storm. colloq. " a tough
      debate. " --fuller.
      1913 webster

   6. difficult to do, perform, or accomplish; as, a tough job.
      pjc

   7. prone to aggressive or violent behavior; rowdyish; -- of
      people, or groups; as, a tough neighborhood; a tough
      character.
      pjc

   to make it tough, to make it a matter of difficulty; to
      make it a hard matter. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster
see also:
tougher toughest to make it tough 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tough \tough\, n.
   a person who is tough7; a ruffian; a thug; as, a cluster of
   neighborhood toughs hanging out on the corner.
   pjc

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tough
     adj 1: not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough
            character" ant: tender
     2: 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" syn: rugged
     3: physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet" syn:
        toughened ant: tender
     4: substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves";
        "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some
        plastics are as tough as metal" syn: sturdy
     5: violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough
        street gangs" syn: ruffianly
     6: 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" syn: bad
     7: tough to cut or chew ant: tender
     8: unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough
        break" syn: hard
     n 1: someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than
          being formally trained in the sport of boxing syn: street
          fighter
     2: an aggressive and violent young criminal syn: hood, hoodlum,
         goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer
     3: a cruel and brutal fellow syn: bully, hooligan, ruffian,
         roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
see also:
tender rugged toughened sturdy ruffianly bad 
hard street fighter hood hoodlum goon 
punk thug toughie strong-armer bully 
hooligan ruffian roughneck rowdy yob 
yobo yobbo 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

501 moby thesaurus words for "tough":
   antaeus, atlas, briareus, brobdingnagian, charles atlas, cyclops,
   goliath, herculean, hercules, mafioso, ok, polyphemus, samson,
   spartan, spartanic, superman, tarzan, titan, young turk, abiding,
   abstruse, ace-high, acute, adamant, adamantine, adherent, adhesive,
   age-long, aged, amylaceous, ancient, antique, arbitrary, arduous,
   astringent, athletic, austere, authoritarian, backbreaking, bad,
   baffling, bang-up, battler, beast, beldam, belligerent,
   belted knight, berserk, berserker, beyond one, bickerer, blade,
   bomber, bony, bonzer, boss, bravo, brawler, brawny, bruiser,
   brutal, brute, bulky, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy,
   bullheaded, bully, bullyboy, burdensome, burly, but good, callous,
   cartilaginous, cement, cemental, chewy, chronic, clabbered, clammy,
   clingy, clotted, coagulated, cohesive, cold, colossus, combatant,
   competitor, complex, complicated, concrete, confirmed, constant,
   contender, contestant, continuing, cool, coriaceous, corking,
   corneous, crabbed, crackerjack, cramp, critical, crushing, curdled,
   cutting, dandy, delicate, delicious, demanding, demon, dense,
   devil, diamondlike, difficile, difficult, disputant, diuturnal,
   doughty, doughy, dour, dragon, drastic, ducky, duelist, durable,
   dure, effortful, enduring, enforcer, evergreen, exacting,
   excessive, exigent, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fab, fencer,
   feuder, fibrous, fiend, fierce, fighter, fighting cock,
   fine and dandy, fire-eater, firebrand, firm, fixed, flintlike,
   flinty, foilsman, forced, formidable, furious, fury, game,
   gamecock, gamy, garbled, gaumy, gear, gelatinous, giant, gladiator,
   glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey,
   goon, gorilla, granitelike, granitic, great, grim, gristly, gritty,
   groovy, grueling, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous,
   gummy, gun, gunsel, gutsy, gutty, hairy, hard, hard as nails,
   hard to understand, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hard-earned,
   hard-fought, hard-line, hard-nosed, hard-set, hardened,
   hardhearted, hardnose, hardy, harsh, hatchet man, heavy, hefty,
   hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood,
   hoodlum, hooligan, horny, hot, hothead, hotspur, hunky-dory, icy,
   immoderate, immutable, incendiary, inflexible, inspissated,
   intemperate, intense, intractable, intransient, intrepid,
   intricate, inured, inveterate, irksome, iron-hard, ironlike,
   jam-up, jawbreaking, jelled, jellied, jellylike, jouster, jumbled,
   just dandy, keen, killer, killing, knight, knotted, knotty,
   labored, laborious, lapideous, lasting, leatherlike, leathery,
   lithoid, lithoidal, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing,
   long-term, longeval, longevous, macrobiotic, mad dog, madcap,
   manly, marble, marblelike, marvy, massive, mean, meticulous,
   mettlesome, militant, monster, mucilaginous, mucker, mug, mugger,
   muscle man, muscular, mystifying, narrow, neat, nervy, nifty,
   no picnic, nobby, not easy, obdurate, obfuscated, obscure,
   obscured, obstinate, of long duration, of long standing, okay,
   onerous, operose, oppressive, osseous, out of sight, outrageous,
   overtechnical, painful, pasty, peachy, peachy-keen, perdurable,
   perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, perplexed, perplexing,
   persistent, persisting, pertinacious, piercing, plucky, plug-ugly,
   powerful, powerhouse, procrustean, punishing, punk, puzzling,
   quarreler, rapist, red-blooded, refractory, remaining, resistant,
   resistive, resolute, revolutionary, rigid, rigorous, rioter,
   ripping, rival, rocklike, rocky, rodman, ropy, rough, roughneck,
   rowdy, ruffian, rugged, rum, sabreur, savage, scrambled, scrapper,
   scrumptious, scuffler, self-adhesive, sempervirent,
   set with thorns, severe, sharp, she-wolf, sinewy, slabby, slap-up,
   slimy, slithery, smashing, solid, something else, sound, spiffing,
   spiffy, spiny, spirited, spiritful, spitfire, splitting, spunky,
   squabbler, stable, stalwart, starchy, staying, steadfast, steady,
   steellike, steely, steep, stern, stickable, sticky, stiff, stodgy,
   stonelike, stony, stout, strained, strapping, strenuous, strict,
   stringent, stringy, strong, strong arm, strong man, strong-arm man,
   strong-armer, struggler, stubborn, stunning, sturdy, substantial,
   swashbuckler, swell, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, syrupy, tacky,
   taut, taxing, tenacious, termagant, terror, terrorist, the mighty,
   the strong, thick, thickened, thorny, thug, ticklish, tiger,
   tigress, tilter, toilsome, torpedo, tough as leather, tough guy,
   tower of strength, tremelloid, tremellose, tricky, trigger man,
   troublesome, tussler, ugly customer, unalterable, unbending,
   unbreakable, uncaring, uncompromising, unconscionable,
   underprivileged, unfading, unfeeling, ungiving, unsentimental,
   unsparing, unsympathetic, untiring, unyielding, uphill, vehement,
   venomous, vigorous, violent, virago, virile, virulent, viscid,
   viscose, viscous, vital, vixen, wearisome, well-built,
   well-constructed, well-founded, well-grounded, well-made, wicked,
   wild beast, wiry, witch, withstanding, wizard, wolf, wrangler,
   yahoo

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