ROPY Synonyms

• requiring much chewing

• (of a consistency) requiring chewing

• having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute

• (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

• thin in diameter; resembling a thread

• resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable

• consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon

• (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew

• (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

• 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

• of or relating to wire

• lean and sinewy

• of hair that resembles wire in stiffness

• of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong

• forming viscous or glutinous threads

• (British informal) very poor in quality

• of or characteristic of low rank or importance

• of low or inferior quality

• written or printed below and to one side of another character

• having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit

• one of lesser rank or station or quality

• a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

• lower than a given reference point

• falling short of some prescribed norm

• moderate to inferior in quality

• showing signs of wear and tear

• mean and unworthy and despicable

• somewhat ill or prone to illness

• forming viscous or glutinous threads

• thin in diameter; resembling a thread