muscleman vs tough

tough vs muscleman

muscleman and tough both are nouns.

muscleman is not an adjective while tough is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
muscleman	Yes	No	No	No
tough	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, tough is a hypernym of muscleman; that is, tough is a word with a broader meaning than muscleman:

muscleman: a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard
tough: a cruel and brutal fellow

Other hypernyms of muscleman include bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo.

muscleman (noun)	tough (noun)
a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard	an aggressive and violent young criminal
someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature	a cruel and brutal fellow
	someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

muscleman (adjective)	tough (adjective)
	resistant to cutting or chewing
	physically toughened
	not given to gentleness or sentimentality
	unfortunate or hard to bear
	substantially made or constructed
	feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
	violent and lawless
	very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
	making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

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