tough

adjective/tʌf/

Frequency rank: #1,315 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Difficult to do or deal with; or strong and not easily damaged.

Illustration for the English word “tough”

Example sentence

After the marathon, my legs felt really tough.

Synonyms & related words

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