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1. n амер. опасный хулиган, бандит2. a жёсткий; плотный, упругий3. a крепкий, прочный, твёрдый4. a надёжный5. a вязкий; тягучий6. a крепкий, крепкого телосложенияtough guy — крепкий парень; настоящий мужчина
7. a стойкий, выносливый, упорный8. a грубый, крутой9. a упрямый, упорный, несговорчивый10. a строгий11. a лишённый сентиментальности; жёсткий, строгий, суровыйtough sentence — жёсткий, суровый приговор; жёсткое, суровое наказание
12. a сильный, яростный13. a разг. трудный, тяжёлый; суровыйa tough life of want — жизнь, полная лишений
a tough nut — человек, с которым трудно справиться
14. a разг. трудный, плохо поддающийся влиянию15. a разг. разг. невероятный, неправдоподобный16. a разг. гангстерскийtough guy — гангстер, бандит, головорез
17. a разг. преступный, хулиганский, бандитскийtough district — район, кишащий преступными элементами
18. a разг. сл. замечательный, классный19. adv разг. жёстко, грубо20. v разг. вынести, выдержать, выдюжитьtough it out! — крепись!, не падай духом!
Синонимический ряд:1. durable (adj.) durable; impenetrable; solid2. hard (adj.) arduous; backbreaking; bad; burdensome; demanding; difficile; difficult; effortful; exacting; exigent; formidable; grievous; hard; heavy; knotty; labored; laborious; onerous; operose; oppressive; rough; rough-and-tumble; rowdy; serious; slavish; stern; sticky; strenuous; strict; superincumbent; taxing; toilful; toilsome; trying; uphill; weighty3. obstinate (adj.) bullheaded; closed-minded; deaf; hardheaded; headstrong; incompliant; intractable; intransigent; muleheaded; muley; obstinate; pertinacious; perverse; pervicacious; refractory; self-willed; stiff-necked; unpliable; unpliant; willful; wrongheaded4. rigorous (adj.) rigorous; stiff; uncompromising5. strong (adj.) casehardened; firm; hardened; hardy; leathery; rugged; stalwart; staunch; stout; strong; sturdy; vigorous; vigourous6. stubborn (adj.) adamant; close-minded; determined; die-hard; hardened; hard-headed; hard-line; incorrigible; inexorable; inflexible; mulish; obdurate; pigheaded; resolute; rigid; stubborn; troublesome; unbending; unyielding7. violent (adj.) ferocious; fierce; savage; severe; terrible; thuggish; violent8. viscous (adj.) tenacious; viscid; viscose; viscous9. bullyboy (noun) bullyboy; mucker; mug; plug-ugly; punk; rough; roughneck; rowdy; ruffian; thug; toughie; yahoo10. hoodlum (noun) bruiser; gangster; hoodlumАнтонимический ряд:defenceless; deferential; delicate; docile; dutiful; easy; easygoing; feeble; flexible; fragile; gentle; permissive; soft
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