tough
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
The tent, made of tough canvas, held up to many abuses.
Đồng nghĩa: robust, stout, adamantine, concrete, firm, granitic, grim, hard, inflexible, lithic, resistant, rigid, robust, solid, stiff, stout, sturdy, stony, tough, unbending, unyielding
- 2.
(of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
To soften a tough cut of meat, the recipe suggested simmering it for hours.
Đồng nghĩa: unchewable
- 3.
(of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
Only a tough species will survive in the desert.
Đồng nghĩa: hardy, robust, vigorous
- 4.
(of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
He had a reputation as a tough negotiator.
Đồng nghĩa: hardheaded, tenacious, adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful
- 5.
(usually)(of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
Đồng nghĩa: inclement
- 6.
Rowdy or rough.
A bunch of the tough boys from the wrong side of the tracks threatened him.
Đồng nghĩa: disorderly, unruly
- 7.
(usually)(of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
This is a tough crowd.
1998, Lois Liederman Davitz, Joel Robert Davitz, 20 Tough Questions Teenagers Ask and 20 Tough Answers, Paulist Press, pages 6-7, But let's get back to the tough question about sex before marriage. And this is a tough question. In fact we would rank the question you've both raised as pretty high on our list of tough questions.
2010, Rushworth M. Kidder, Good Kids, Tough Choices, Wiley (Jossey-Bass), page 96, What Lara faced, in fact, falls right into the pool of light beneath our second lens: making tough choices.
Đồng nghĩa: challenging, hard, arduous, challenging, nasty, difficult, effortful, hard, rough, rocky, thistly, tough, uneath, unsimple
- 8.
(material)(material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
- 9.
Strict, not lenient.
tough on crime
Đồng nghĩa: harsh, strict, brutal, callous, cold, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, harsh, humorless, icy, iron-hearted, insensate, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unsympathetic, unmoved
interjection
interjectiontuff
- 1.
(slang)Used to indicate lack of sympathy
If you don't like it, tough!
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
They were doing fine until they encountered a bunch of toughs from the opposition.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To endure.
- 2.
To toughen.
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Nguồn gốc từ
ine-pro From Middle English tough, towgh, tou, toȝ, from Old English tōh, from *tą̄h(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (fitting; clinging; tenacious; tough), from *tinganą (to press upon, throng), from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (to bite). 2 cog Cognate with toai, zaach, zach (tough), taai, zäh, zähe (tough), tiee, zéi; also δάκνω, danë, darë (tongs; pincers; pliers),.