tough vs muscleman

muscleman vs tough

tough and muscleman both are nouns.

tough is an adjective but muscleman is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, muscleman is a hyponym of tough; that is, muscleman is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tough:

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

Other hyponyms of tough include bullyboy, muscle, skin, skinhead, plug-ugly, tough guy.

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

tough (adjective)	muscleman (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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