resistant to cutting or chewing | made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment |
physically toughened | protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) |
not given to gentleness or sentimentality | made tough by habitual exposure |
unfortunate or hard to bear | converted to solid form (as concrete) |
substantially made or constructed | used of persons; emotionally hardened |
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 | |