toughest

/tʌf/

US pronunciation

American sound/tʌf/

toughest

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short u vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

toug - hest -> toughest

Myanmar meaning

(adj[sup]) အခိုင်ဆုံး

Full entry

tough /tʌf/ adj (-er, -est )

၁။ ခိုင်သော။ tough leather boots ❍ tough material/plastic.
၂။ အကြမ်းခံနိုင်သော။ These animals need to be tough to survive the arctic winter. ❍ He should recover—he's pretty tough.
၃။ (esp US ) ကြမ်းသော။ စရိုက်ကြမ်းသော။ one of the toughest areas of the city ❍ He often plays the tough guy in Hollywood movies.
၄။ (derog ) ရင့်သော။ ပျဉ်းတွဲသော။
၅။ ~ (on/with sb/sth) ကြမ်းသော။ (ဗန်း) ပွဲကြမ်းသော။ tough measures to deal with terrorism ❍ take a tough line with offenders ❍ be tough on crime/criminals ❍ It's time to get tough with football hooligans.
၆။ ခက်ခဲသော။ ကြမ်းတမ်းသော။ a tough assignment / problem / journey ❍ It's tough finding a job these days. ❍ She's had rather a tough time lately. ❍ Her successor will find her a tough act to follow (ie will find it difficult to do as well as her).
၇။ ~ (on sb) (infml ) ကံဆိုးသော။
(က) (showing sympathy): That's tough! (ie Bad luck!) ❍ It's rather tough on him getting ill just before his holiday.
(ခ) (showing a lack of sympathy): ‘I haven't got any money. ’ ‘Tough!’ ❍ It's your tough luck if you lose her.
n (dated infml ) လူမိုက်။ လူရမ်းကား။
❏ (as) tough as old boots [IDM ] (infml ) ခက်ထရော်သော (သို့) ဒူပေနာပေခံသော (သို့) ရင့်ထော်သော၊ ရွတ်တွသော။
❏ toughen /'tʌfn/ v ~ (sth/sb) (up) အကြမ်းခံနိုင်စေသည် (သို့) ခက်ခဲအောင် တင်းကျပ်ပေးသည်။ toughened glass ❍ The government plans to toughen the immigration laws. ❍ His parents made him join the army to toughen him up.
❏ tough luck [IDM ]
၁။ (used to show sympathy) ကံဆိုးလေစွ။ ကျွတ်ကျွတ်။
၂။ (ironic ) (used to show that one does not really care about sb's bad luck) ကံဆိုးတယ်မှတ်ပေါ့ကွာ။ If you don't like it that's just tough luck.
❏ tough-minded adj အရေထူသော။ စိတ်ဓာတ် ခက်မာသော။
❏ toughness n [U] အကြမ်းပတမ်းခံနိုင်မှု (သို့) အရေထူခြင်း။ စိတ်ဓာတ်မာခြင်း။ physical/mental toughness.

More examples

He’s having a really tough time at the moment.
It was a tough decision to move to London.
Many companies are facing tough competition.
I think she’ll be all right because she’s very tough.
A tough businesswoman
The report contained tough criticism of the company’s management style.
She’s campaigning for tough new laws on industrial pollution.
[be tough on] : The new mayor promises to be tough on crime.
[get tough with] : She promised to get tough with people who claim benefits fraudulently.
[take a tough stance/stand] : We must take a tough stance against terrorism.
The tool is made from a very tough and resilient steel.
A couple of tough-looking lads
He grew up in a tough inner-city neighbourhood.
A good teacher of Chinese is a tough get at the moment.
A toughly worded message
An athlete needs to show both physical and mental toughness.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

amenable, calm, controllable, delicate, easy, easy-going, facile, flexible, fragile, gentle, kind, lenient, loose, mild, nice, peaceful, pleasant, pliable, pliant, slack, soft, supple, tender, tolerant, trivial, uncertain, unstable, vulnerable, weak, wobbly, yielding