• a cruel and brutal fellow
• an aggressive and violent young criminal
• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`Tough'' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad''); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling Tough after a restless night"
• substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a Tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as Tough as metal"
• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was Tough"; "it''s a Tough life"; "it was a Tough job"
• unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a Tough break"
• Tough to cut or chew
• physically Toughened; "the Tough bottoms of his feet"
• not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a Tough character"
• violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "Tough street gangs"

'Tough' in other languages