| Sentido | resistant to cutting or chewing. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | resistente | |
| Específico | cartilaginoso | Difficult to chew |
| coriáceo | resembling or made to resemble leather | |
| correoso, duro, fibroso, musculoso, nervudo | (of meat) full of sinews | |
| correoso | requiring much chewing | |
| fibroso | Having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute | |
| También | incomestible | not suitable for food |
| Contrario | tierno | Easy to cut or chew |
| Inglés | tough | |
| Nombres | dureza, enormidad | impressive difficulty |
| Sentido | physically toughened. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | endurecido, resistente | |
| Específico | calloso | Having calluses |
| endurecido | made tough by habitual exposure | |
| También | escabroso | sturdy / sturdy and strong in constitution or construction |
| experimentado | Having experience | |
| fuerte | Having strength or power greater than average or expected | |
| Contrario | blando, suave al tacto, suavizado | physically untoughened |
| Inglés | tough, toughened | |
| Sentido | Resisting weight or pressure. | |
|---|---|---|
| Cualidad de | dureza | The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure |
| Específico | acerado | resembling steel in hardness |
| adamantino | Having the hardness of a diamond | |
| consistente, firme, macizo, sólido | not soft or yielding to pressure | |
| córneo | made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | |
| duro, severo, terminante | resistant to physical force or pressure | |
| endurecido | converted to solid form (as concrete) | |
| erecto, túmido | Of sexual organs | |
| granítico, pedregoso, rocoso | Hard as granite | |
| leñoso, lignificado | made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls | |
| pétreo | (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone / stone in hardness | |
| También | sólido | Of definite shape and volume |
| Contrario | blando | Yielding readily to pressure or weight |
| Inglés | hard | |
| Catalán | dur | |
| Nombres | dureza | The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure |
| Sentido | not given to gentleness or sentimentality. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | severo | |
| Específico | pugnaz, tenaz | tough and callous by virtue of experience |
| También | duro | dispassionate |
| insensible | Deficient in human sensibility | |
| Contrario | cariñoso, tierno | given to sympathy / sympathy / sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality |
| Inglés | tough | |
| Sentido | Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | agotador, arduo, fatigoso, laborioso, penoso, pesado | |
| Inglés | arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome | |
| Catalán | ardu, dur, esgotador, fatigant, fatigós, feixuc, laboriós, penós, pesat | |
| Nombres | agobio, molestia, opresión, pesadez | unwelcome burdensome difficulty |
| arduidad | extreme / extreme effortfulness | |
| dureza | The quality of being difficult to do | |
| faena, labor, trabajo | Productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | |
| laboriosidad | The quality of requiring extended effort | |
| Adverbios | agotadoramente, arduamente, duramente, fatigosamente, laboriosamente, penosamente, pesadamente, rigurosamente | In a laborious manner |
| agotadoramente, arduamente, duramente, fatigosamente, laboriosamente, penosamente, pesadamente, rigurosamente | With effort or force or vigor | |
| arduamente | In an arduous manner | |
| Sentido | dispassionate. | |
|---|---|---|
| Específico | calculador, interesado | Used of persons |
| calloso, endurecido | Used of persons | |
| También | despiadado | Having or showing no mercy |
| difícil, dura, duro | not easy | |
| duro, severo | not given to gentleness or sentimentality | |
| insensible | Deficient in human sensibility | |
| Contrario | blando, suave | Compassionate and kind |
| Inglés | hard | |
| Nombres | dureza, insensibilidad | Devoid of passion or feeling |
| Sentido | lacking in feeling or pity or warmth. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | cruel, despiadado, inclemente | |
| Específico | empedernido, obstinado, terco | showing unfeeling resistance to tender / tender feelings |
| Contrario | blandengue, compasivo, pasado por agua, sensible | easily moved to pity or sorrow |
| Inglés | hardhearted, heartless | |
| Catalán | despiadat, dur, inclement | |
| Nombres | inhumanidad | An absence of concern for the welfare of others |
| Adverbios | cruelmente, desalmadamente | In a heartless manner |
| Sentido | Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | austero, severo | |
| Inglés | austere, stern | |
| Nombres | austeridad | extreme / extreme plainness |
| Adverbios | severamente | With sternness |
| Sentido | Characterized by oppressive heat / heat / heat and humidity. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | mordaz | |
| General | cálido, caliente, caluroso, muy caliente, tibio | Used of physical heat / heat |
| Inglés | sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous | |
| Nombres | bochorno | oppressively hot and humid weather |
| Sentido | harshly uninviting / uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | adusto, austero, severo | |
| General | antipático, desagradable, desapacible, grosero, insultante, ofensivo | Disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings |
| Inglés | dour, forbidding, grim | |
| Catalán | adust, auster, dur, sever | |
| Sentido | unfortunate / unfortunate or hard to bear. | |
|---|---|---|
| General | mal, malo | Having undesirable or negative qualities |
| Inglés | hard, tough | |
| Nombres | adustez, austeridad, dureza, inclemencia, rigidez, rigor, rigurosidad, severidad | excessive sternness |
| Sentido | (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | correoso, fibroso, musculoso, nervudo | |
| General | duro, resistente | resistant to cutting or chewing |
| Inglés | fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable | |
| Catalán | coriaci, dur, fibrós | |
| Sentido | emotionally hardened. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | insensible | |
| General | insensible | Deficient in human sensibility |
| Inglés | callous, indurate, pachydermatous | |
| Nombres | dureza, insensibilidad | Devoid of passion or feeling |
| Adverbios | cruelmente, desconsideradamente, insensiblemente | In a callous way |
| Sentido | Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | delicado, difícil, dificultoso | |
| General | difícil, dura, duro | not easy |
| Inglés | awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable | |
| Catalán | delicat, difícil, dificultós, dur | |
| Nombres | incomodidad, inconveniencia, molestia, torpeza | The quality of an embarrassing situation |
| Sentido | (eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid. | |
|---|---|---|
| General | cocido, cocinado | Having been prepared for eating by the application of heat |
| Inglés | hard-boiled | |
| Sentido | Very strong or vigorous. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | severo | |
| General | fuerte | Having strength or power greater than average or expected |
| Inglés | hard, knockout, severe | |
| Nombres | agudeza, gravedad, seriedad, severidad | Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather |
| Sentido | resistant to physical force or pressure. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimos | severo, terminante | |
| General | duro | Resisting weight or pressure |
| Inglés | unyielding | |
| Sentido | Full of hardship or trials. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | escabroso | |
| General | difícil, dura, duro | not easy |
| Inglés | rocky, rough | |
| Sentido | (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | fuerte | |
| Específico | velar | produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as 'k' in 'cat' and 'g' in 'gun' and 'ng / ng' in 'sing') |
| Contrario | blando, suave | (of speech sounds) |
| Inglés | hard | |
| Sentido | dried out. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | seco | |
| General | pasado, rancio, revenido, viciado | Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age |
| Inglés | hard | |
| Sentido | someone who bullies weaker people. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sinónimo | chulo | |
| General | bullanguero, camorrista, gallito, gamberra, gamberro, gorila, hampón, hooligan, matachín, matasiete, matón, patotero, pendenciero, perdonavidas, rufian, rufián, vándala, vándalo | A cruel and brutal fellow |
| Inglés | tough guy, plug-ugly | |
| Catalán | facinerós, pinxo, trinxaire | |
| Sentido | A conservative who is uncompromising. | |
|---|---|---|
| General | conservador, conservativist | A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas |
| Inglés | hardliner | |
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