Tough Crossword Clue
While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Tough crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on December 15 2023 LA Times Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Tough has a total of 4 letters.
Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher |
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99% | HARD | Tough | LA Times |
20% | ONEARM | Tough type of pushup | Universal |
20% | ENIGMA | Tough nut to crack | Wall Street Journal |
20% | SAYDIE | What a person should never do when things get tough | Wall Street Journal |
20% | BRUISER | Tough guy | Newsday |
20% | UGLIER | Tougher on the eye | Newsday |
Definition
• | Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple. |
• | Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem. |
• | Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure. |
• | Difficult to resist or control; powerful. |
• | Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms. |
• | Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character. |
• | Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style. |
• | Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider. |
• | Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc. |
• | Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone. |
• | Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition. |
• | Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade. |
• | With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly. |
• | With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard. |
• | Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly. |
• | So as to raise difficulties. |
• | With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard. |
• | Close or near. |
• | To harden; to make hard. |
• | A ford or passage across a river or swamp. |
Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:
- New York Times: Mar 30, 2024
- LA Times: Dec 15, 2023
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