Definitions for tough

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Spelling: [tuhf]

IPA: /tʌf/

Tough is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in tough (ghotu).

Definitions for tough

noun

1. a ruffian; rowdy.

Idioms

1. hang tough, Slang. hang (def 56).
2. tough it out, Informal. to endure or resist hardship or adversity.

adverb

1. in a tough manner.

adjective

1. strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
2. not brittle or tender.
3. difficult to masticate, as food:
4. of viscous consistency, as liquid or semiliquid matter:
5. capable of great endurance; sturdy; hardy:
6. not easily influenced, as a person; unyielding; stubborn:
7. hardened; incorrigible:
8. difficult to perform, accomplish, or deal with; hard, trying, or troublesome:
9. hard to bear or endure (often used ironically):
10. vigorous; severe; violent:
11. vicious; rough; rowdyish:
12. practical, realistic, and lacking in sentimentality; tough-minded.
13. Slang. remarkably excellent; first-rate; great.

Origin of tough

before 900; Middle English (adj.); Old English tōh; compare Dutch taai, German zäh(e)

Examples for tough

His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.

If the mushrooms are found to be tough, the skin should be peeled off.

It was tough for a while, but I knew who I was, so I stayed true to it.

“You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.

After a bunch of tough talk, this round of the hacker-on-hacker fight nevered materialized.

Even when they did pick out novels, they were just as tough as the history books.

This game's too tough fer me—I'll ship me plugs to Gravesend.

He was tough, but the ranch horses of John Merchant came out from a night of rest.

But it certainly contributed, and purposely so, to the defeat of the tough Likud hardliner Yitzhak Shamir in 1992.

There he met two other tough ones like himself,—Duroc and Junot.