tough vs battler

battler vs tough

tough and battler both are nouns.

tough is an adjective but battler is not an adjective.

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

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

tough: someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
battler: someone who fights (or is fighting)

Other hypernyms of tough include belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper.

tough (noun)	battler (noun)
an aggressive and violent young criminal	someone who fights (or is fighting)
a cruel and brutal fellow
someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

tough (adjective)	battler (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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