Main entry: tough
Definition: resistant to cutting or chewing
Antonyms: tender
Definition: easy to cut or chew
Main entry: tough, toughened
Definition: physically toughened
Usage: the tough bottoms of his feet
Antonyms: untoughened, tender
Definition: physically untoughened
Antonyms: soft
Definition: not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Main entry: tough
Definition: not given to gentleness or sentimentality
Usage: a tough character
Antonyms: tender
Definition: given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
Main entry: hard, tough
Definition: unfortunate or hard to bear
Usage: had hard luck; a tough break
Definition: that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
Antonyms: good
Definition: having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
Main entry: tough, ruffianly
Definition: violent and lawless
Usage: the more ruffianly element; tough street gangs
Antonyms: nonviolent
Definition: abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
Main entry: tough, bad
Definition: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
Usage: my throat feels bad; she felt bad all over; he was feeling tough after a restless night
Antonyms: comfortable, comfy
Definition: providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
Antonyms: comfortable
Definition: free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind
Main entry: sturdy, tough
Definition: substantially made or constructed
Usage: sturdy steel shelves; sturdy canvas; a tough all-weather fabric; some plastics are as tough as metal
Antonyms: delicate
Definition: exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
Main entry: elusive, tough, baffling, problematic, problematical, knotty
Definition: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
Usage: a baffling problem; I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast; a problematic situation at home
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
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