tough
Từ điển Collocation
tough adj.
1 difficult/unpleasant
VERBS be, seem | get
ADV. extremely, particularly, really, very | a bit, fairly, a little, pretty, quite Things were pretty tough at first.
PREP. on It's very tough on the wives when the husbands go off like that.
2 strict/firm
VERBS be | become, get
ADV. extremely, particularly, very | fairly, pretty, quite | enough Has the government been tough enough on polluters?
PREP. on The government has promised to get tough on crime. | with You have to be tough with these young thugs.
3 strong
VERBS be, feel, look, seem | become, get, grow | act, talk (both informal) Then this guy started acting tough.
ADV. incredibly, really, remarkably, very | pretty, quite, reasonably | enough Are you sure you're physically tough enough for this job? | mentally, physically
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing; street fighter
- an aggressive and violent young criminal; hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer
- a cruel and brutal fellow; bully, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
adj.
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality
a tough character
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; rugged
a rugged competitive examination
the rugged conditions of frontier life
the competition was tough
it's a tough life
it was a tough job
- physically toughened; toughened
the tough bottoms of his feet
- substantially made or constructed; sturdy
sturdy steel shelves
sturdy canvas
a tough all-weather fabric
some plastics are as tough as metal
- violent and lawless; ruffianly
the more ruffianly element
tough street gangs
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); bad
my throat feels bad
she felt bad all over
he was feeling tough after a restless night
- resistant to cutting or chewing
- unfortunate or hard to bear; hard
had hard luck
a tough break
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical
a baffling problem
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home
English Idioms Dictionary
difficult.
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
toughs|tougher|toughest
syn.: complicated difficult durable firm hard hardy obscure strong sturdy unclear vague
ant.: tender
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