Main entry: rugged
Definition: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
Usage: with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture
Antonyms: delicate
Definition: exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
Antonyms: tender
Definition: easy to cut or chew
Antonyms: untoughened, tender
Definition: physically untoughened
Antonyms: tender
Definition: given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
Main entry: rugged, furrowed
Definition: having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface
Usage: furrowed fields; his furrowed face lit by a warming smile
Antonyms: unfurrowed
Definition: not marked with shallow depressions or furrows
Main entry: broken, rugged
Definition: topographically very uneven
Usage: broken terrain; rugged ground
Antonyms: smooth
Definition: having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
Antonyms: smooth
Definition: of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
Antonyms: smooth
Definition: of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
Main entry: tough, rugged
Definition: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
Usage: a rugged competitive examination; the rugged conditions of frontier life; the competition was tough; it's a tough life; it was a tough job
Antonyms: easy
Definition: posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
Antonyms: soft
Definition: yielding readily to pressure or weight
Antonyms: soft
Definition: compassionate and kind; conciliatory
Antonyms: soft
Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
Antonyms: diffuse, diffused, soft
Definition: (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected