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Tough Pronunciation

Pronounce Tough as T OW UW G HH.

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    Tough phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'tough'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of tough: /toʊuɡh/
    • Modern IPA representation of tough: /tɒʊɡh/

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    List of meaning for tough

    pertaining to something sturdy and that can endure harshness

    street fighter, tough(noun)

    someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

    hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer(noun)

    an aggressive and violent young criminal

    bully, tough, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo(adj)

    a cruel and brutal fellow

    tough(adj)

    not given to gentleness or sentimentality

    "a tough character"

    rugged, tough(adj)

    very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

    "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"

    tough, toughened(adj)

    physically toughened

    "the tough bottoms of his feet"

    sturdy, tough(adj)

    substantially made or constructed

    "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"

    ruffianly, tough(adj)

    violent and lawless

    "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"

    bad, tough(adj)

    feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

    "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"

    tough(adj)

    resistant to cutting or chewing

    hard, tough(adj)

    unfortunate or hard to bear

    "had hard luck"; "a tough break"

    baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough(adj)

    making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

    "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

    not easily chewed

    her steak was so tough that she suggested the waiter use it as a hockey puck

    able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure

    this is a tough plant that easily withstands harsh winters

    difficult to endure

    tough weather conditions on the top of the mountain all year long

    requiring considerable physical or mental effort

    even if you study for it, it's still a tough exam

    requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling

    handled a tough situation with the aplomb and tact of a true diplomat

    given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint

    a tough supervisor who docked the pay of anyone who punched in late, no matter what the reason

    a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang

    didn't want her son hanging out with the neighborhood toughs

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    tough in sentence

    1. This tough test is a doozy and should be studied for more than any other exam.

    2. The losing football team fought to eek out even one touchdown from the super tough opposing squad.

    3. In order to protect the heart, a fibrous sac surrounds the organ so that the sac is not hard as a shell but is tough to tear.

    4. Judges wrestle with making tough decisions even when all of the facts aren’t clear.

    5. After hours in a slow cooker, the beef roast was still too tough to be esculent.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term tough

    For a presenter, the chief objective is to enthral the audience, than just pleasing them for the sake of it, and that’s a tough task Mind You!

    – Ramana Pemmaraju

    It's a tough environment globally, there are not many options that look like a good value right now.

    – Nancy Davis

    I love my house – I wouldn’t want to sell my house here in New York. I love my job. My kids are growing up here. So it would be a tough call, but sure, if I won, I would figure something out, which isn’t to say that I am necessarily optimistic given that I have no resources in campaign other than the filing fee.

    – Lifelong New Yorker Andy Maskin

    Her tenure at HP involved a lot of really difficult choices, but getting voters to a place where they agree with the tough decisions when you're talking about layoffs is a very difficult thing to do.

    – Matt McDonald

    They were a tough set of facts, we thought we had overcome them, but we didn't.

    – Steven Boozang

    Important discussions can be tough discussions and we're not shying away from that.

    – Damon Jones

    I didn't know how tough it would be to get asylum in Denmark. But when you're fleeing, you do not think about that, you just want to go to a safe country.

    – Ali Adnan

    We had tough times, under sanctions and all. But, now I think we can do things that we wanted to achieve in the first place, like contributing to making peace.

    – President Yu-Taik Chon

    Tough times don't last, tough people do.

    – Julian Edelman

    This is the first in a series of tough decisions ahead as we traverse through this very difficult financial time.

    – Superintendent Rob Neu

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