TOUGHER: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for TOUGHER?

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Associations of "Tougher" (30 Words)

brave	People who are brave. The home of the free and the brave.
brogan	A coarse stout leather shoe reaching to the ankle.
burly	Muscular and heavily built. A big burly man.
firm	Marked by firm determination or resolution not shakable. Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly.
gruff	Brusque and surly and forbidding. Robert s gruff no nonsense approach.
hard	Causing great damage or hardship. Hard water requires much more soap shampoo or detergent than soft water.
hardened	Used of persons emotionally hardened. A battle hardened veteran.
hardheaded	Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack. A hardheaded appraisal of our position.
hardy	United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957. Hardy explorers of northern Canada.
husky	Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion- Virgil Thomson. Clothing sizes for husky boys.
inflexible	Resistant to being bent. An inflexible knife blade.
inured	Made tough by habitual exposure- Robert Lynd- V.S.Pritchett. A peasant dark lean faced wind inured.
manliness	The traditional male quality of being brave and strong. Men accustomed to proving their manliness on the streets.
masculine	A masculine word or form. The masculine rhyme of annoy enjoy.
muscular	Having a robust muscular body build characterized by predominance of structures bone and muscle and connective tissue developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer. The muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony.
potent	Having a strong physiological or chemical effect. Potent liquor.
raspy	Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound. His voice was raspy from days of non stop campaigning.
resolute	Characterized by quickness and firmness. A resolute and unshakeable faith.
rigidity	The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe. There was a regrettable rigidity in this decision.
rigidness	The physical property of being stiff and resisting bending.
robust	Marked by richness and fullness of flavor. A robust tale.
rowdy	A cruel and brutal fellow. Rowdy teenagers.
solid	A substance or object that is solid rather than liquid or fluid. The bank is solid and will survive this attack.
stalwart	A loyal, reliable, and hard-working supporter of or participant in an organization or team. The stalwart citizens at Lexington.
strong	Relating to or denoting the strongest of the known kinds of force between particles which acts between nucleons and other hadrons when closer than about 10 cm so binding protons in a nucleus despite the repulsion due to their charge and which conserves strangeness parity and isospin. A cup of strong coffee.
sturdy	(of a person or their body) strongly and solidly built. The bike is sturdy enough to cope with bumpy tracks.
uncompromising	Harsh or relentless. She was uncompromising In her convictions.
unyielding	Stubbornly unyielding T S Eliot. An unyielding head support.
vigorous	Strong, healthy, and full of energy. A vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback.
virile	Having or characterized by strength and energy. He was a powerful virile man.