HARD-NOSED Synonyms

• the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments

• with resolute determination

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• not soft or yielding to pressure

• strong and sure

• not subject to revision or change

• (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling

• not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall

• securely established

• possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue

• securely fixed in place

• unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause

• become taut or tauter

• make taut or tauter

• incapable of change

• not making concessions

• resistant to being bent

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

• firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination

• characterized by quickness and firmness

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• firm and dependable especially in loyalty

• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• (of rules) stringently enforced

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• not making concessions

• showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality

• tireless

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• punishingly harsh

• never-ceasing

• going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside

• firm and dependable especially in loyalty

• stubbornly unyielding

• resistant to physical force or pressure

• unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

• guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory

• concerned with actual use or practice

• guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory

• being actually such in almost every respect

• having or put to a practical purpose or use

• of or concerning the theory of pragmatism

• an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land

• concerned with practical matters

• guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory