TOUGH vs BAD: NOUN
- A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
- A person who is tough{7}; a ruffian; a thug.
- A rough; a bully; an incorrigibly vicious fellow; a bad character.
- A violent or rowdy person; a hoodlum or thug.
- An aggressive and violent young criminal
- Someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
- A cruel and brutal fellow
- That which is bad. A bad condition: as, to go to the bad (see below). A bad thing: as, there are bads and goods among them.
- Preterit of bid.
- That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
TOUGH vs BAD: ADJECTIVE
- Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
- Difficult or demanding.
- Rowdy or rough.
- Harsh or severe.
- Stubborn.
- Rugged or physically hardy.
- Difficult to cut or chew.
- Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- To make it a matter of difficulty; to make it a hard matter.
- Prone to aggressive or violent behavior; rowdyish; -- of people, or groups.
- Difficult to do, perform, or accomplish.
- Severe; violent.
- Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn.
- Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious.
- Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; -- of objects and people.
- Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain.
- Fine; great.
- Unfortunate; too bad.
- Difficult to deal with; demanding or troubling.
- Trying or unpleasant.
- Difficult to endure; severe; harsh.
- Inclined to violent or disruptive behavior; rowdy or rough.
- Aggressive; pugnacious.
- Strong-minded; resolute.
- Physically hardy; rugged.
- Hard to cut or chew.
- Able to withstand great strain without tearing or breaking; strong and resilient.
- Unfortunate or hard to bear
- Very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- Substantially made or constructed
- Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- Violent and lawless
- Not given to gentleness or sentimentality
- Physically toughened
- Tough to cut or chew
- Malodorous, foul.
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Evil; wicked.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
- Not good; unfavorable; negative.
- This sense?) (slang) Fantastic.
- Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good.
- Very good; great.
- Sorry; regretful.
- Being in poor condition; diseased.
- Being in poor health or in pain.
- Severe; intense.
- Being so far behind in repayment as to be considered a loss.
- Having no validity; void.
- Full of or exhibiting faults or errors.
- Not working properly; defective.
- Injurious in effect; detrimental.
- Not fresh; rotten or spoiled.
- Unfavorable.
- Disagreeable, unpleasant, or disturbing.
- Disobedient or naughty.
- Vulgar or obscene.
- Immoral or evil.
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor.
- Physically unsound or diseased
- Capable of harming
- Keenly sorry or regretful
- Characterized by wickedness or immorality
- Having undesirable or negative qualities
- Reproduced fraudulently
- Not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- Not capable of being collected
- Below average in quality or performance
- Nonstandard
- Not financially safe or secure
- Very intense
TOUGH vs BAD: VERB
- To toughen.
- To endure.
- To shell (a walnut).
- Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
TOUGH vs BAD: ADVERB
- N/A
- Badly.
- With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
- Very much; strongly
TOUGH vs BAD: INTERJECTION
- Used to indicate lack of sympathy
- N/A
TOUGH vs BAD: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Making great mental demands
- Very difficult
- Resistant to cutting or chewing
- Severe; violent: as, a tough rebuke or tirade; a tough storm.
- Hard to manage or accomplish; difficult; trying; requiring great or continued effort.
- Not easily influenced; unyielding; stubborn; hardened; incorrigible.
- Not easily separated; tenacious; stiff; ropy; viscous: as, a tough clay; tough phlegm.
- Firm; strong; able to endure hardship, hard work, or ill usage; hardy; not easily broken or impaired.
- Having the property of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to a bending force without breaking; also, hard to cut or sever, as with a cutting-instrument: as, tough meat.
- (idiom) (tough it out) To get through despite hardship; endure.
- (idiom) (that's tough) Used to indicate recalcitrance or noncompliance with a complaint or demand.
- Strongly
- Very much
- Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- Serious or severe
- [Bad is the ordinary antithesis of good, in all its senses, whether positively, ‘evil,’ ‘harmful,’ or negatively, ‘not good,’ ‘not satisfactory,’ and whether substantively, ‘being evil,’ or causally, ‘causing harm.’ The senses run into one another, the precise application being determined by the context.]
- Unfavorable; unfortunate: as, bad news; bad success.
- Not valid; not sound: as, a bad claim; a bad plea.
- Incorrect; faulty: as, a bad aim; bad English; a bad pronunciation.
- Not good; defective; worthless; poor; of no value: as, bad coin; bad debts; a bad soil; a bad crop; a bad piece of work; bad health.
- Ill; in ill health; sick; in unsound condition: as, to feel bad; to be bad with rheumatism; a bad hand or leg.
- Hurtful; noxious; having an injurious or unfavorable tendency or effect: with for: as, bad air or bad food; late hours are bad for the health; this step would be bad for your reputation or prospects.
- Offensive; disagreeable; troublesome; painful; grievous: as, bad treatment; a bad temper; it is too bad that you had to wait so long.
- Evil; ill; vicious; wicked; depraved: applied to persons, conduct, character, influence, etc.: as, a bad man; bad conduct; a bad life; a bad heart; bad influence, etc.
- (idiom) (that's too bad) Used in response to a protest or complaint to express insistence that the speaker's expectation be met.
- (idiom) (that's too bad) Used to express sadness or sympathy.
- (idiom) (half/so) Reasonably good.
- (idiom) (my bad) Used to acknowledge that one is at fault.
- (idiom) (in bad) In trouble or disfavor.
- (imperative) Bade.
TOUGH vs BAD: RELATED WORDS
- Unsentimental, Violent, Calloused, Sturdy, Pugnacious, Hardened, Rowdy, Bully, Rugged, Uncomfortable, Toughened, Toughie, Bad, Hard, Difficult
- Sad, Wicked, Negative, Mediocre, Tough, Shitty, Atrocious, Rotten, Poor, Crappy, Dreadful, Awful, Horrid, Lousy, Terrible
TOUGH vs BAD: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Gristly, Unsentimental, Violent, Calloused, Sturdy, Pugnacious, Hardened, Rowdy, Bully, Rugged, Uncomfortable, Toughened, Bad, Hard, Difficult
- Sad, Wicked, Negative, Mediocre, Tough, Shitty, Atrocious, Rotten, Poor, Crappy, Dreadful, Awful, Horrid, Lousy, Terrible
TOUGH vs BAD: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Might be tough for a small order though.
- This must be a tough time for you.
- Diplomacy, especially under circumstances like these, is tough!
- Recently I was going through a tough time.
- WIld MUstangs and it must be tough fencing.
- The girl was a tough one to find.
- Probably tough to get a five star review and also tough to get a three star review.
- Residue might be tough to get out, so you may have to hand scrub with a tough sponge.
- It was tough, made you tough, cause you knew what to expect.
- Going gets tough, the tough call the Iron Marines by purchasing this item you!
- Office Bad Check Restitution Program to assist local merchants with bad check losses.
- Goto is not bad, its how people use them that can be bad.
- These few bad actors are going to give us a bad name.
- Unbelievably bad service and bad faith demonstrated over a fraudulent charge.
- OK to put pictures on your resume is BAD, very bad.
- My view is that bad managers create bad employees.
- City Furniture for bad service, bad furniture, bad attention.
- It is bad for the user experience, bad for SEO, and bad for developers who have to maintain pages.
- Mere negligence or bad judgment is insufficient for a finding of bad faith, at least under the bad faith statute.
- Bad things happen in every society, and bad people often get away with doing bad things.
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