tough vs criminal

criminal vs tough

tough and criminal both are nouns.

tough and criminal both are adjectives.

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

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

tough: an aggressive and violent young criminal
criminal: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

Other hypernyms of tough include crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw.

tough (noun)	criminal (noun)
an aggressive and violent young criminal	someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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)	criminal (adjective)
resistant to cutting or chewing	guilty of crime or serious offense
physically toughened	involving or being or having the nature of a crime
not given to gentleness or sentimentality	bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
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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