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hard as nails
adjective as in cutthroat
Strong match
adjective as in determined
Strongest matches
adjective as in hard
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- hard-boiled
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
adjective as in hard-bitten
adjective as in hard-boiled
adjective as in hardened
Strongest matches
- coldhearted
- seasoned
adjective as in heartless
adjective as in imperturbable
adjective as in insensitive
adjective as in insusceptible
adjective as in puissant
Weak matches
- able
- able-bodied
- active
- athletic
- big
- capable
- durable
- enduring
- energetic
- firm
- fixed
- forceful
- forcible
- hale
- hardy
- hearty
- heavy
- heavy-duty
- in fine feather
- mighty
- muscular
- potent
- powerful
- reinforced
- robust
- rugged
- secure
- sinewy
- solid
- sound
- stable
- stalwart
- stark
- staunch
- steady
- stout
- strapping
- sturdy
- substantial
- tenacious
- tough
- unyielding
- vigorous
- well-built
- well-founded
- well-made
adjective as in strong
adjective as in thick-skinned
Weak matches
adjective as in tough
adjective as in unbending
Weak matches
- aloof
- distant
- do-or-die
- dug in
- formal
- hard-line
- hold one's ground
- hold the fort
- hold the line
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- relentless
- resolute
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- standing one's ground
- standing pat
- sticking to one's guns
- stiff
- strict
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unflexible
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- uptight
noun as in durability
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
It was that he had all the best qualities you’d want in somebody; his heart of gold, and then you couple that with him just being hard as nails and tough, no quit ever.
But next comes an admission, from this professionally tough politician, described to me by one of her colleagues once as 'hard as nails', that when things get personal, she doesn't like it.
While a friend has described her as politically "as hard as nails", Reeves' time in Westminster has not been without controversy.
But one of her friends says politically she is "hard as nails".
He remembers inviting a group of heterosexual friends to watch a match in Ilkley and them asking which of the players were gay because they were "hard as nails".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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