Word Meanings - TOUGHNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being tough.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOUGHNESS)

• Fibre
• Strength
• sinews
• thews
• toughness

Related words: (words related to TOUGHNESS)

• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STRENGTH
  1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• STRENGTHNER
  See STRENGTHENER
• STRENGTHY
  Having strength; strong.
• STRENGTHING
  A stronghold.
• STRENGTHLESS
  Destitute of strength. Boyle.
• TOUGHNESS
  The quality or state of being tough.
• STRENGTHEN
  1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.
• FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• FIBER; FIBRE
  1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one
• FIBERLESS; FIBRELESS
  Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.
• TAMPICO FIBER; TAMPICO FIBRE
  A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
• FIBERED; FIBRED
  Having fibers; made up of fibers.
• RESTRENGTHEN
  To strengthen again; to fortify anew.
• UNSTRENGTH
  Want of strength; weakness; feebleness. Wyclif.