tough /tʌf/
1. someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
synset: street_fighter, tough
2. an aggressive and violent young criminal
synset: hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer
synset: bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
1. not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
synset: tough
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"
3. physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
4. substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"
5. violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"
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"
7. resistant to cutting or chewing
synset: tough
8. unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
9. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
synset: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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