Synonyms: bully, tough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yobbo, yobo, yob, hooligan
Definition: a cruel and brutal fellow
Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, strong-armer, tough, toughie, thug, punk
Definition: an aggressive and violent young criminal
Similar words: criminal, crook, malefactor, felon, outlaw
Definition: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
Synonyms: street fighter, tough
Definition: someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
Similar words: scrapper, belligerent, battler, combatant, fighter
Definition: someone who fights (or is fighting)
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
Similar words: uncomfortable
Definition: providing or experiencing physical discomfort
Usage: an uncomfortable chair; an uncomfortable day in the hot sun
Definition: substantially made or constructed
Usage: sturdy steel shelves; sturdy canvas; a tough all-weather fabric; some plastics are as tough as metal
Similar words: rugged
Definition: sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
Usage: with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: difficult, hard
Definition: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Usage: a difficult task; nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access; difficult times; why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?
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
Similar words: difficult, hard
Definition: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Usage: a difficult task; nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access; difficult times; why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?
Definition: unfortunate or hard to bear
Usage: had hard luck; a tough break
Similar words: bad
Definition: having undesirable or negative qualities
Usage: a bad report card; his sloppy appearance made a bad impression; a bad little boy; clothes in bad shape; a bad cut; bad luck; the news was very bad; the reviews were bad; the pay is bad; it was a bad light for reading; the movie was a bad choice
Synonyms: tough
Definition: resistant to cutting or chewing
Similar words: cartilaginous, rubbery, gristly
Definition: difficult to chew
Similar words: chewy
Definition: requiring much chewing
Similar words: leathered, leatherlike, leathery, coriaceous
Definition: resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable
Similar words: unchewable, stringy, sinewy, fibrous
Definition: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
Similar words: fibrous, hempen
Definition: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute
Similar words: tough-skinned
Definition: having a relatively tough outer covering
Definition: physically toughened
Usage: the tough bottoms of his feet
Similar words: thickened, callous, calloused
Definition: having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
Usage: calloused skin; with a workman's callous hands
Similar words: hardened, enured, inured
Definition: made tough by habitual exposure
Usage: hardened fishermen; a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured- Robert Lynd; our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men- V.S.Pritchett
Similar words: weather-beaten
Definition: tanned and coarsened from being outdoors
Usage: a weather-beaten face
Synonyms: tough
Definition: not given to gentleness or sentimentality
Usage: a tough character
Similar words: hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious
Definition: tough and callous by virtue of experience
Similar words: tough-minded, unsentimental
Definition: facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination
Definition: violent and lawless
Usage: the more ruffianly element; tough street gangs
Similar words: violent
Definition: acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
Usage: a violent attack; a violent person; violent feelings; a violent rage; felt a violent dislike