| firmness | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. firmness, soundness | the muscle tone of healthy tissue.; "his muscular firmness" |
| ~ strength | the property of being physically or mentally strong.; "fatigue sapped his strength" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve | the trait of being resolute.; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" |
| ~ trait | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature. |
| ~ self-command, self-possession, will power, willpower, self-control, self-will, possession | the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior. |
| ~ steadiness | freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct.; "He trusted her clear steadiness that she would do what she said" |
| ~ sturdiness | resoluteness evidenced by strength of character.; "sturdiness of moral principle" |
| ~ stiffness | firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action.; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity" |
| ~ bullheadedness, pigheadedness, self-will, obstinacy, obstinance, stubbornness | resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires. |
| ~ single-mindedness | characterized by one unified purpose. |
| ~ adamance, obduracy, unyieldingness | resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible. |
| ~ decisiveness, decision | the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose.; "a man of unusual decisiveness" |
| ~ determination, purpose | the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose.; "his determination showed in his every movement"; "he is a man of purpose" |
| ~ steadfastness | steadfast resolution. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. firmness | the property of being unyielding to the touch. |
| ~ hardness | the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. firmness, steadiness | the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place. |
| ~ immovability, immovableness | not capable of being moved or rearranged. |
| ~ granite | something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness).; "a man of granite" |
| ~ sureness | the quality of being steady and unfailing.; "sureness of hand" |
| ~ stability, stableness | the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast. |
| stiffness | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. stiffness | the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend. |
| ~ inelasticity | the lack of elasticity. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. stiffness | the property of moving with pain or difficulty.; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck" |
| ~ clumsiness, awkwardness | the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. stiffness | firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action.; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity" |
| ~ firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve, firmness, resolution | the trait of being resolute.; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness | the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment). |
| ~ inelegance | the quality of lacking refinement and good taste. |
| ~ woodenness | the quality of being wooden and awkward.; "he criticized the woodenness of the acting"; "there was a certain woodenness in his replies" |
| ~ gaucherie, rusticity | the quality of being rustic or gauche. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness | excessive sternness.; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" |
| ~ sternness, strictness | uncompromising resolution. |
| toughness | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. stamina, staying power, toughness | enduring strength and energy. |
| ~ endurance | the power to withstand hardship or stress.; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance" |
| ~ legs | staying power.; "that old Broadway play really has legs" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. huskiness, ruggedness, toughness | the property of being big and strong. |
| ~ strength | the property of being physically or mentally strong.; "fatigue sapped his strength" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. temper, toughness | the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking. |
| ~ elasticity, snap | the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed.; "the waistband had lost its snap" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. formidability, toughness | impressive difficulty. |
| ~ difficultness, difficulty | the quality of being difficult.; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" |
| stiff | | |
| n. (person) | 1. stiff | an ordinary man.; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff" |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| n. (body) | 2. cadaver, clay, corpse, remains, stiff | the dead body of a human being.; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" |
| ~ dead body, body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person.; "they found the body in the lake" |
| ~ cremains | the remains of a dead body after cremation. |
| adj. | 3. stiff | not moving or operating freely.; "a stiff hinge" |
| ~ immobile | not capable of movement or of being moved. |
| adj. | 4. stiff | powerful.; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze" |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| adj. | 5. buckram, starchy, stiff | rigidly formal.; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality" |
| ~ formal | being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress).; "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" |
| adj. | 6. potent, stiff, strong | having a strong physiological or chemical effect.; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea"; "a stiff drink" |
| ~ effective, effectual, efficacious | producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect.; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" |
| ~ fertile | capable of reproducing. |
| ~ equipotent | having equal strength or efficacy. |
| ~ multipotent | able to many things.; "multipotent drugs" |
| ~ powerful | having great power or force or potency or effect.; "the most powerful government in western Europe"; "his powerful arms"; "a powerful bomb"; "the horse's powerful kick"; "powerful drugs"; "a powerful argument" |
| adj. | 7. firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering | marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable.; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" |
| ~ resolute | firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination.; "stood resolute against the enemy"; "faced with a resolute opposition"; "a resolute and unshakeable faith" |
| adj. | 8. rigid, stiff | incapable of or resistant to bending.; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck" |
| ~ inflexible | resistant to being bent.; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade" |
| adj. | 9. besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet | very drunk. |
| ~ argot, jargon, lingo, patois, vernacular, slang, cant | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves).; "they don't speak our lingo" |
| ~ drunk, inebriated, intoxicated | stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol).; "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated" |
| adv. | 10. stiff | extremely.; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff" |
| adv. | 11. stiff, stiffly | in a stiff manner.; "his hands lay stiffly" |
| tough | | |
| n. (person) | 1. street fighter, tough | someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing. |
| ~ battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper | someone who fights (or is fighting). |
| n. (person) | 2. goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie | an aggressive and violent young criminal. |
| ~ bully | a hired thug. |
| ~ criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| n. (person) | 3. bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo | a cruel and brutal fellow. |
| ~ aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker | someone who attacks. |
| ~ bullyboy | a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction. |
| ~ muscleman, muscle | a bully employed as a thug or bodyguard.; "the drug lord had his muscleman to protect him" |
| ~ skinhead | a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations. |
| ~ plug-ugly, tough guy | someone who bullies weaker people. |
| adj. | 4. tough | not given to gentleness or sentimentality.; "a tough character" |
| ~ hard | dispassionate.; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer" |
| ~ insensitive | deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive.; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" |
| ~ hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious | tough and callous by virtue of experience. |
| ~ tough-minded, unsentimental | facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination. |
| adj. | 5. rugged, tough | 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" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| adj. | 6. tough, toughened | physically toughened.; "the tough bottoms of his feet" |
| ~ rugged | sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" |
| ~ experienced, experient | having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation. |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| ~ calloused, callous, thickened | having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear.; "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands" |
| ~ enured, inured, hardened | made tough by habitual exposure.; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men" |
| ~ weather-beaten | tanned and coarsened from being outdoors.; "a weather-beaten face" |
| adj. | 7. sturdy, tough | substantially made or constructed.; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal" |
| ~ rugged | sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring.; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" |
| adj. | 8. ruffianly, tough | violent and lawless.; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs" |
| ~ violent | acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity.; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike" |
| adj. | 9. bad, tough | 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" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ uncomfortable | providing or experiencing physical discomfort.; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun" |
| adj. | 10. tough | resistant to cutting or chewing. |
| ~ inedible, uneatable | not suitable for food. |
| ~ gristly, cartilaginous, rubbery | difficult to chew. |
| ~ chewy | requiring much chewing. |
| ~ coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery | resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable. |
| ~ sinewy, unchewable, fibrous, stringy | (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew. |
| ~ fibrous, hempen | having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute. |
| ~ tough-skinned | having a relatively tough outer covering. |
| adj. | 11. hard, tough | unfortunate or hard to bear.; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 12. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough | 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" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
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