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adjective
sturdy, strong
Synonyms: brawny, cohesive, conditioned, dense, durable, fibrous, firm, fit, flinty, hard, hard as nails, hard-bitten, hardened, hardy, healthy, indigestible, inflexible, leathery, lusty, mighty, molded, resilient, resistant, rigid, robust, rugged, seasoned, sinewy, solid, stalwart, steeled, stiff, stout, strapping, tenacious, tight, tough as nails, unbreakable, unyielding, vigorous, withstanding
Antonyms: delicate, fragile, unstable, vulnerable, weak, wobbly
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adjective
obstinate, rough
Synonyms: adamant, arbitrary, callous, confirmed, cruel, desperate, drastic, exacting, ferocious, fierce, firm, fixed, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hard-line, hard-nosed, hard-shelled, harsh, headstrong, immutable, inflexible, intractable, merciless, narrow, obdurate, pugnacious, refractory, resolute, ruffianly, ruthless, savage, severe, stern, stiff, strict, stubborn, taut, terrible, unalterable, unbending, uncompromising, uncontrollable, unforgiving, unmanageable, unyielding, vicious, violent
Antonyms: gentle, kind, nice, tender
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adjective
difficult, laborious
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, baffling, burdensome, demanding, effortful, exacting, exhausting, exigent, grievous, hairy, handful, hard, heavy, intractable, intricate, irksome, knotty, labored, mean, no piece of cake, onerous, oppressive, perplexing, puzzling, resisting, severe, stiff, strenuous, taxing, thorny, toilsome, troublesome, trying, unyielding, uphill, weighty, wicked
Antonyms: controllable, easy, facile
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noun
person who is rowdy, mean
Synonyms: bruiser, brute, bully, criminal, gangster, goon, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, punk, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, thug, villain