Tougher Synonyms and Antonyms

*Excellent
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. finer
Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. worse
  2. weightier
  3. severer
  4. rougher
  5. heavier
  6. harder
Indicating or possessing determination, resolution, or persistence
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. steadier
  2. firmer
Not given to gentleness or sentimentality
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. older
  2. stricter
  3. sterner
  4. severer
  5. harsher
  6. harder
Antonyms:
  1. nicer
  2. tenderer
  3. kinder
  4. softer
  5. gentler
Hardy
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sounder
  2. rougher
Unfortunate or hard to bear
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. taller
  2. harder
Antonyms:
  1. easier
  2. simpler
Sturdy, strong
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. stronger
  2. sturdier
  3. mightier
  4. stouter
  5. hardier
Antonyms:
  1. weaker
  2. wobblier
Physically toughened
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hardier
  2. sturdier
  3. harder
  4. denser
  5. bolder
  6. firmer
Antonyms:
  1. tenderer
  2. weaker
Substantially made or constructed
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sturdier
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. knottier
*Rough and cruel
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fiercer
Antonyms:
  1. friendlier

Words Related to Tougher

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. rawer
  2. healthier
  3. tighter
  4. tough

Tougher Sentence Examples

  • He couldn't help thinking his mama had been a little tougher when she found out about the Immortals.

  • She's tougher than Cynthia Byrne used to be.

  • In metal bridges wrought iron has been replaced by mild steel - a stronger, tougher and better material.

  • Thus arsenic, antimony, bismuth, tin or zinc render the metal brittle, so that it fractures under a die or rolling mill; copper, on the other hand, increases its hardness, makes it tougher and more readily fusible.

  • There is a grass like a bigger and tougher couch grass, growing around the trees.

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