SOFT Antonyms

• 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

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous

• entirely of one substance with no holes inside

• matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure

• the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape

• a three-dimensional object, structurally rigid, usually resistant to changes of shape or volume

• characterized by good substantial quality

• of one substance or character throughout

• uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks

• providing abundant nourishment

• of good quality and condition; solidly built

• not soft or yielding to pressure

• having length, breadth and thickness

• impenetrable for the eye

• financially dependable

• of a substantial character and not frivolous or superficial

• meriting respect or esteem

• of the same color throughout

• acting together as a single undiversified whole

• 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 textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• of low or inferior quality or value

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

• having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface

• topographically very uneven

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• not making concessions

• having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

• substantially made or constructed

• stubbornly unyielding

• resistant to physical force or pressure

• characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity

• (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly

• with relatively high volume

• tastelessly showy

• a substance that abrades or wears down

• causing abrasion

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment

• protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)

• used of persons; emotionally hardened

• made tough by habitual exposure

• converted to solid form (as concrete)

• relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)

• able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress

• impervious to being affected

• disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

• incapable of absorbing or mixing with

• causing abrasion

• easily irritated or annoyed

• lacking consistency

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• showing reason or sound judgment

• able to feel or perceive

• readily perceived by the senses

• aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed

• abounding in rocks or stones

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

• hard as granite

• 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

• having strength or power greater than average or expected

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• not faint or feeble

• having or wielding force or authority

• immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with

• of good quality and condition; solidly built

• of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• freshly made or left

• strong and sure