Definition of toughs

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• toughs is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
• toughs is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
• toughs is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 11

Definition of toughs

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. baffling
  2. elusive
  3. knotty
  4. problematic
  5. problematical
• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the competition was tough
  2. it's a tough life
  3. it was a tough job

  Synonyms

  1. rugged
• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. street fighter
• unfortunate or hard to bear (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a tough break

  Synonyms

  1. hard
• violent and lawless (adjective)

  Examples

  1. tough street gangs

  Synonyms

  1. ruffianly
• physically toughened (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the tough bottoms of his feet

  Synonyms

  1. toughened
• an aggressive and violent young criminal (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. goon
  2. hood
  3. hoodlum
  4. punk
  5. strong-armer
  6. thug
  7. toughie
• a cruel and brutal fellow (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. bully
  2. hooligan
  3. roughneck
  4. rowdy
  5. ruffian
  6. yob
  7. yobbo
  8. yobo
• substantially made or constructed (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a tough all-weather fabric
  2. some plastics are as tough as metal

  Synonyms

  1. sturdy
• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') (adjective)

  Examples

  1. he was feeling tough after a restless night

  Synonyms

  1. bad
• not given to gentleness or sentimentality (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a tough character
• resistant to cutting or chewing (adjective)

See definition of toughs in Merriam Webster