tough vs fighter

fighter vs tough

tough and fighter both are nouns.

tough is an adjective but fighter is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, fighter is a hypernym of tough; that is, fighter 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
fighter: someone who fights (or is fighting)

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

tough (noun)	fighter (noun)
an aggressive and violent young criminal	a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
a cruel and brutal fellow	someone who fights (or is fighting)
someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing	someone who fights for a cause

tough (adjective)	fighter (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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