tough

意味: 不良、ガラの悪い人

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定義: 正式にスポーツとしてのボクシングを習うよりも、通りで喧嘩することを覚えた人

コロケーション:

toughは20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
Noun: an aggressive and violent young criminal
Noun: a cruel and brutal fellow
Adjective: not given to gentleness or sentimentality
Adjective: very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
Adjective: physically toughened
Adjective: substantially made or constructed
Adjective: violent and lawless
Adjective: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for `bad’)
Adjective: resistant to cutting or chewing
Adjective: unfortunate or hard to bear
Adjective: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Adjective: a tough character
Adjective: a rugged competitive examination
Adjective: the rugged conditions of frontier life
Adjective: the competition was tough
Adjective: it’s a tough life
Adjective: it was a tough job
Adjective: the tough bottoms of his feet
Adjective: sturdy steel shelves
Adjective: sturdy canvas
Adjective: a tough all-weather fabric
Adjective: some plastics are as tough as metal
Adjective: the more ruffianly element
Adjective: tough street gangs
Adjective: my throat feels bad
Adjective: she felt bad all over
Adjective: he was feeling tough after a restless night
Adjective: had hard luck
Adjective: a tough break
Adjective: a baffling problem
Adjective: I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
Adjective: a problematic situation at home

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bad, baffling, bully, elusive, goon, hard, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, knotty, problematic, problematical, punk, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, ruffianly, rugged, street fighter, strong-armer, sturdy, thug, tough, toughened, toughie, yob, yobbo, yobo

Antonyms(反意語): tender

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): attacker, combatant, criminal

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accessory, ambusher, arsonist, avenger, beast, blackmailer, bludgeoner, bootlegger, boxer, brawler, briber, bully, butter, conspirator, defender, desperado, fencer, fugitive, gangster, gladiator, gouger, harasser, hell-kite, highbinder, highjacker, hood, iconoclast, jail bird, kidnapper, mafioso, marauder, mauler, moll, murderer, night rider, probationer, pusher, racketeer, raper, recidivist, scofflaw, shedder, skirmisher, slasher, smuggler, stabber, stoner, street fighter, thief, traitor, victor, violator, wrestler

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bully, bullyboy, muscleman, skinhead, tough guy

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: badness, bully, hardness, knottiness, problem, ruffian, ruffianly, ruggedness, strong-arm, sturdiness, toughness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, education, emotional

Grammatical Notes:

comparative-er

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative, sadness