Are you trying to hyphenate tough? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.
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Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing |
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An aggressive and violent young criminal |
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A cruel and brutal fellow |
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Not given to gentleness or sentimentality A tough character |
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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 |
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Physically toughened The tough bottoms of his feet |
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Substantially made or constructed Sturdy steel shelves Sturdy canvas A tough all-weather fabric Some plastics are as tough as metal |
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Violent and lawless The more ruffianly element Tough street gangs |
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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 |
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Resistant to cutting or chewing |
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Unfortunate or hard to bear Had hard luck A tough break |
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Making great mental demands Hard to comprehend or solve or believe A baffling problem I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast A problematic situation at home |
| adj | tough, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious, tough-minded, unsentimental, hard, insensitive |
| adj | rugged, difficult, hard |
| adj | tough, toughened, calloused, thickened, enured, inured, hardened, weather-beaten, experienced, rugged, strong |
| adj | sturdy, rugged |
| adj | ruffianly, violent |
| adj | bad, uncomfortable |
| adj | tough, cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery, chewy, coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery, fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable, hempen, fibrous, inedible, uneatable |
| adj | hard, bad |
| noun | street fighter, combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
| noun | hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer, criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor |
| noun | bully, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo, attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter |