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tough-skinned

tough-skinned adjective: resilient; able to endure hardship or criticism, with no apparent adverse effects.

Adjective

tough-skinned (comparative more tough-skinned, superlative most tough-skinned)

  1. Resilient; able to endure hardship or criticism, with no apparent adverse effects.
    • She's tough-skinned, if she can work for slave-drivers like those guys.

Forms of tough-skinned

comparativemore tough-skinned
superlativemost tough-skinned

Questions about tough-skinned

What does tough-skinned mean?
Tough-skinned means resilient; able to endure hardship or criticism, with no apparent adverse effects.
What part of speech is tough-skinned?
Tough-skinned is an adjective.

Words near tough-skinned in the dictionary

  1. tough-loving
  2. tough-minded
  3. tough-mindedly
  4. tough-mindedness
  5. tough-pitch
  6. tough-skinned
  7. toughed
  8. toughed it out
  9. toughed out
  10. toughen
  11. toughen up

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