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hanging tough
adjective as in adamant
adjective as in conscientious
adjective as in dogged
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in obdurate
Weak matches
- adamant
- bullhead
- callous
- cold fish
- dogged
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- hard-nosed
- harsh
- heartless
- immovable
- implacable
- indurate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron
- mean
- mulish
- obstinate
- perverse
- relentless
- rigid
- set in stone
- stiff-necked
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unbending
- uncompassionate
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- unemotional
- unfeeling
- unimpressible
- unrelenting
- unshakable
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
adjective as in set
Strong matches
adjective as in stalwart
Strong matches
adjective as in unrelenting
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
Guardians and Royals have each won 9 of 10, but Twins are hanging tough.
Santa Margarita is hanging tough in the Trinity League baseball race.
Overall, the Democrats are hanging tough: a clean debt ceiling vote, period.
“I want to thank you guys, seriously, for hanging tough, for expressing your solidarity with me. Thank you for all your notes about ‘Unthinkable’ and the essays that you guys wrote about Tommy,” Raskin said, referring to his late son, who died by suicide days before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — a collision of personal and national tragedies that was the subject of Raskin’s 2022 book.
Hanging tough for Herbert on Sunday would be easier with Allen and Williams, two pieces with which he is quite familiar.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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