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You can make 27 words from tough according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of tough

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Definitions and meaning of tough

tough

Etymology

From Middle English tough, towgh, tou, toȝ, from Old English tōh (“tough, tenacious, holding fast together; pliant; sticky, glutinous, clammy”), from Proto-West Germanic *tą̄h(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“fitting; clinging; tenacious; tough”), from Proto-Indo-European *denḱ- (“to bite”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭf, IPA^(key): /tʌf/
• Rhymes: -ʌf
• Homophone: tuff

Adjective

tough (comparative tougher, superlative toughest)

1. (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.

2. (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.

3. (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
4. (of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.

5. (of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
6. Rowdy or rough.

7. (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
   • 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.

8. (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
9. Strict, not lenient.

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Interjection

tough

1. (slang) Used to indicate lack of sympathy

   If you don't like it, tough!

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Noun

tough (plural toughs)

1. A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.

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Verb

tough (third-person singular simple present toughs, present participle toughing, simple past and past participle toughed)

1. To endure.
2. To toughen.

Derived terms

• tough out

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Anagrams

• ought

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English tough; see also German taff.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taf/

Adjective

tough (strong nominative masculine singular tougher, comparative tougher, superlative am toughsten or am toughesten)

1. (slang) Alternative form of taff (“tough; robust; assertive and not overly sensitive”)

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Further reading

• “tough” in Duden online
• “tough” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

Noun

tough

1. Alternative form of tow