Definition of tough

"tough" in the noun sense

1. street fighter, tough

someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

2. hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer

an aggressive and violent young criminal

3. bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo

a cruel and brutal fellow

"tough" in the adjective sense

1. tough

not given to gentleness or sentimentality

"a tough character"

2. rugged, tough

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. tough, toughened

physically toughened

"the tough bottoms of his feet"

4. sturdy, tough

substantially made or constructed

"sturdy steel shelves"

"sturdy canvas"

"a tough all-weather fabric"

"some plastics are as tough as metal"

5. ruffianly, tough

violent and lawless

"the more ruffianly element"

"tough street gangs"

6. bad, tough

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. tough

resistant to cutting or chewing

8. hard, tough

unfortunate or hard to bear

"had hard luck"

"a tough break"

9. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough

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"

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Quotations for tough

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but sticketh nere;
Sweet is the firbloome, but its branches rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.
[ Spenser ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

tough in Scrabble®

The word tough is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters tough:

TOUGH
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OUGHT
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tough in Words With Friends™

The word tough is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters tough:

TOUGH
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OUGHT
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Words within the letters of tough

2 letter words in tough (4 words)

3 letter words in tough (9 words)

4 letter words in tough (4 words)

5 letter words in tough (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence tough

Words with tough in them (2 words)

Words that end with tough (2 words)

Word Growth involving tough

Shorter words in tough

to

ugh

Longer words containing tough

toughen toughened untoughened

toughen toughener tougheners

toughen toughening

toughen toughens

tougher

toughest

toughhearted toughheartedness

toughie toughies

toughish

toughly

toughness

toughs

toughy

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