Exact Match:
- fibrous
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
Synonyms:
- capillary,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cohesive,
- coriaceous,
- durable,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- flagelliform,
- flossy,
- funicular,
- gossamery,
- gristly,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hardy,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- ligamental,
- resistant,
- ropy,
- silky,
- sinewy,
- stiff,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenacious,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- untiring,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- wiry
Related Words:
- chewy
collapse - (of a consistency) requiring chewing; "chewy caramels"
- requiring much chewing related words >
- muscular
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- having or suggesting great physical power or force; "the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"
- of or relating to or consisting of muscle; "muscular contraction" related words >
- Herculean,
- able-bodied,
- athletic,
- beefy,
- brawny,
- broad-shouldered,
- burly,
- elastic,
- fibrous,
- flexible,
- husky,
- mighty,
- muscle-bound,
- powerful,
- resilient,
- robust,
- ropy,
- rugged,
- sinewy,
- springy,
- stalwart,
- stout,
- strapping,
- stringy,
- strong,
- sturdy,
- supple,
- thewy,
- thickset,
- well-built,
- well-knit,
- well-set,
- well-set-up,
- wiry
- cohesive
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- causing cohesion; "a cohesive agent"
- cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive organization" related words >
- adhering,
- agglutinate,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- cleaving,
- clinging,
- coherent,
- cohering,
- coriaceous,
- durable,
- fibrous,
- gristly,
- hard,
- hardy,
- holding together,
- impartible,
- indiscerptible,
- indissoluble,
- indissolvable,
- indivisible,
- infrangible,
- infusible,
- inseparable,
- insoluble,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- resistant,
- ropy,
- sinewy,
- sticking,
- stiff,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- stuck,
- tenacious,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- undividable,
- unified,
- untiring,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- wiry
- capillary
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- a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
- any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
- long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"
- of or relating to hair related words >
- aorta,
- arterial,
- arteriole,
- artery,
- blood vessel,
- bristlelike,
- carotid,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- flossy,
- funicular,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- jugular vein,
- ligamental,
- portal vein,
- pulmonary artery,
- pulmonary vein,
- ropy,
- silky,
- stringy,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- vascular,
- vein,
- veinlet,
- veinous,
- vena cava,
- venation,
- venose,
- venous,
- venule,
- vesicular,
- wiry
- ambitious,
- capillary,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- classy,
- downy,
- fancy,
- feathery,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- fleecy,
- fluffy,
- funicular,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hirsute,
- lanate,
- ligamental,
- lofty,
- nappy,
- ostentatious,
- peachy,
- pinnate,
- pretentious,
- pubescent,
- ropy,
- silky,
- stringy,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- tony,
- vaunting,
- velvety,
- wiry,
- woolly
- bristly,
- bushy,
- capillary,
- castellatus,
- cirrous,
- cloud-flecked,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- cumuliform,
- cumulous,
- dark,
- dirty,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- fleecy,
- flocculent,
- flossy,
- funicular,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- gloomy,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- heavy,
- hirsute,
- hispid,
- lanate,
- lenticularis,
- ligamental,
- mammatus,
- matted,
- nebulous,
- nimbose,
- nubilous,
- overcast,
- overclouded,
- pilose,
- pubescent,
- ropy,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- silky,
- squally,
- stormy,
- stratiform,
- stratous,
- stringy,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- thunderheaded,
- unshorn,
- wiry,
- woolly
- wiry
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- of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
- of or relating to wire related words >
- able-bodied,
- athletic,
- brawny,
- broad-shouldered,
- burly,
- capillary,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cohesive,
- coriaceous,
- durable,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- flossy,
- funicular,
- gossamery,
- gristly,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hardy,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- ligamental,
- muscle-bound,
- muscular,
- resistant,
- ropy,
- silky,
- sinewy,
- stiff,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenacious,
- thewy,
- thickset,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- untiring,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- well-built,
- well-knit,
- well-set,
- well-set-up
- able-bodied,
- acid,
- athletic,
- biting,
- brawny,
- broad-shouldered,
- burly,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- cohesive,
- coriaceous,
- corrosive,
- cutting,
- driving,
- durable,
- effective,
- fibrous,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- gristly,
- gutsy,
- hard,
- hardy,
- imperative,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- mighty,
- mordant,
- muscle-bound,
- muscular,
- nervous,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- powerful,
- punchy,
- resistant,
- robust,
- ropy,
- sensational,
- sinewed,
- slashing,
- stiff,
- stout,
- strapping,
- striking,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- sturdy,
- telling,
- tenacious,
- thewy,
- thickset,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- trenchant,
- untiring,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- vital,
- well-built,
- well-knit,
- well-set,
- well-set-up,
- wiry
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- boyish,
- capillary,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- delicate,
- diaphanous,
- diluted,
- ethereal,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- finespun,
- flagelliform,
- flimsy,
- flossy,
- frail,
- funicular,
- gauzy,
- girlish,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- gracile,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- insubstantial,
- lacy,
- ligamental,
- light,
- misty,
- papery,
- rare,
- rarefied,
- ropy,
- silky,
- slender,
- slenderish,
- slight,
- slight-made,
- slim,
- slimmish,
- slinky,
- small,
- stringy,
- subtle,
- svelte,
- sylphlike,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-bodied,
- thin-set,
- thin-spun,
- thinnish,
- thready,
- vague,
- wasp-waisted,
- watered,
- watered-down,
- watery,
- weak,
- willowy,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry,
- wispy
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- buffed,
- burnished,
- capillary,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cottony,
- dainty,
- deferential,
- delicate,
- disarming,
- downy,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- finished,
- flagelliform,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- funicular,
- furbished,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- glace,
- glassy,
- glazed,
- gleaming,
- glossy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- insinuating,
- insinuative,
- lacquered,
- ligamental,
- lustrous,
- plush,
- plushy,
- polished,
- pubescent,
- refined,
- ropy,
- rubbed,
- saccharine,
- satin,
- satinlike,
- satiny,
- sericeous,
- shellacked,
- shiny,
- silken,
- silklike,
- sleek,
- slick,
- smooth,
- soft,
- soft as silk,
- stringy,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- thin-spun,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- varnished,
- velutinous,
- velvetlike,
- velvety,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry
- stringy
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- consisting of or containing string or strings
- lean and sinewy related words >
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- besprinkle,
- capillary,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- cohesive,
- coriaceous,
- curdled,
- doughy,
- durable,
- dust,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- flossy,
- funicular,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- gossamery,
- gristly,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hardy,
- heavy,
- inspissated,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- ligamental,
- mucilaginous,
- pasty,
- powder,
- resistant,
- ropy,
- silky,
- sinewy,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- starchy,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- untiring,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- wiry
- assiduous,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- cohesive,
- constant,
- continuing,
- coriaceous,
- dedicated,
- determined,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- durable,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fibrous,
- gristly,
- hard,
- hardy,
- immutable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexhaustible,
- insistent,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- loyal,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resistant,
- resolute,
- ropy,
- sedulous,
- sinewy,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- unabating,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- utterly attentive,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- weariless,
- wiry
- funicular
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- relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway" related words >
- Amtrak,
- baggage train,
- cable railroad,
- cable railway,
- cableway,
- capillary,
- choo-choo,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- el,
- electric,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- express,
- express train,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- flier,
- flossy,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funicular railway,
- goods train,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- interurban,
- ligamental,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- local,
- metro,
- milk train,
- monorail,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- passenger train,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- railroad train,
- rattler,
- rolling stock,
- rope railway,
- ropy,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- silky,
- ski lift,
- special,
- streamliner,
- stringy,
- subway,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- telpher,
- telpher line,
- telpher ropeway,
- telpherway,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- train,
- tube,
- underground,
- way train,
- wire ropeway,
- wireway,
- wiry
- ropy
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- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong related words >
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- below par,
- capillary,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- cohesive,
- coriaceous,
- curdled,
- deficient,
- doughy,
- durable,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filamentous,
- flagelliform,
- flossy,
- funicular,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- gossamery,
- gristly,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hardy,
- heavy,
- ill,
- inadequate,
- indifferent,
- inferior,
- inspissated,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- ligamental,
- mediocre,
- mucilaginous,
- out of sorts,
- pasty,
- poor,
- poorly,
- questionable,
- resistant,
- rough,
- sickly,
- silky,
- sinewy,
- sketchy,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- starchy,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- substandard,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thickened,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- under the weather,
- unsatisfactory,
- untiring,
- unwell,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- wiry
- durable
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- existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship"
- very long lasting; "less durable rocks were gradually worn away to form valleys"; "the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent"
- serviceable for a long time; "durable denim jeans" related words >
- abiding,
- adamantine,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- bulky,
- cartilaginous,
- changeless,
- chewy,
- chronic,
- cohesive,
- constant,
- continuing,
- coriaceous,
- dense,
- dependable,
- diuturnal,
- enduring,
- evergreen,
- fast,
- fibrous,
- firm,
- fixed,
- frozen,
- gristly,
- hard,
- hardy,
- heavy,
- immobile,
- immutable,
- indestructible,
- intact,
- intransient,
- inveterate,
- inviolate,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- macrobiotic,
- massive,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- quiescent,
- reliable,
- remaining,
- resistant,
- rigid,
- ropy,
- rugged,
- sempervirent,
- sinewy,
- solid,
- sound,
- stable,
- static,
- stationary,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stiff,
- stout,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- sturdy,
- substantial,
- sustained,
- tenacious,
- torpid,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- unaltered,
- unchangeable,
- unchanged,
- unchanging,
- unchecked,
- undestroyed,
- unfading,
- unfailing,
- unshifting,
- untiring,
- unvaried,
- unvarying,
- unyielding,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- vital,
- well-built,
- well-constructed,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- well-made,
- wiry
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- amylaceous,
- bulldogged,
- bulldoggish,
- bulldoggy,
- bullheaded,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- clabbered,
- clammy,
- clingy,
- close,
- close-knit,
- close-textured,
- close-woven,
- clotted,
- coagulated,
- cohesive,
- compact,
- compacted,
- compressed,
- concentrated,
- concrete,
- condensed,
- congested,
- consolidated,
- coriaceous,
- crammed,
- crammed full,
- crowded,
- curdled,
- dense,
- doughy,
- durable,
- fibrous,
- firm,
- gaumy,
- gelatinous,
- glairy,
- gluelike,
- gluey,
- glutenous,
- glutinose,
- glutinous,
- gooey,
- gristly,
- grumous,
- gumbo,
- gumbolike,
- gumlike,
- gummous,
- gummy,
- hard,
- hardy,
- heavy,
- impenetrable,
- impermeable,
- inspissated,
- jam-packed,
- jammed,
- jelled,
- jellied,
- jellylike,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- massive,
- mucilaginous,
- nonporous,
- obstinate,
- packed,
- pasty,
- persistent,
- resistant,
- ropy,
- self-adhesive,
- serried,
- sinewy,
- slabby,
- slimy,
- slithery,
- solid,
- starchy,
- stickable,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- substantial,
- syrupy,
- tacky,
- tenacious,
- thick,
- thick-growing,
- thickened,
- thickset,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- tremelloid,
- tremellose,
- untiring,
- vigorous,
- viscose,
- viscous,
- wiry
- air-built,
- airy,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- breakable,
- brittle,
- bubbly,
- capillary,
- cheap-jack,
- chimerical,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- clear,
- clear as crystal,
- cloud-built,
- cobwebby,
- crumbly,
- crystal,
- crystal-clear,
- crystalline,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- delicately weak,
- diaphane,
- diaphanous,
- downy,
- dreamlike,
- effeminate,
- ethereal,
- fanciful,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feathery,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- flagelliform,
- flimsy,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- foamy,
- fragile,
- frail,
- frangible,
- frothy,
- funicular,
- fuzzy,
- gaseous,
- gauzy,
- gimcrack,
- gimcracky,
- gossamer,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- imponderous,
- jerry,
- jerry-built,
- leger,
- ligamental,
- light,
- light as air,
- light-pervious,
- lighter than vanity,
- lightweight,
- limpid,
- lucid,
- mousse,
- namby-pamby,
- nonopaque,
- papery,
- pasteboardy,
- peekaboo,
- pellucid,
- phantomlike,
- pubescent,
- puny,
- rarefied,
- refined,
- revealing,
- ropy,
- satin,
- satiny,
- see-through,
- shadowy,
- shattery,
- sheer,
- silky,
- sissified,
- sleazy,
- slight,
- smooth,
- souffle,
- spirituous,
- stringy,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- tacky,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tenuous,
- thin,
- thin-spun,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- transparent,
- transpicuous,
- unclouded,
- unheavy,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- vaporous,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- volatile,
- weightless,
- windy,
- wiredrawn,
- wiry,
- wispy,
- womanish,
- yeasty
- hairy
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- hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
- having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" related words >
- Herculean,
- abstruse,
- arduous,
- asperous,
- barbellate,
- barfy,
- bearded,
- bewhiskered,
- bristled,
- bristling,
- bristly,
- brutal,
- bum,
- bushy,
- capillary,
- chancy,
- cheesy,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- comate,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confused,
- confusing,
- craggy,
- crappy,
- creepy,
- critical,
- crummy,
- dangerous,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- dirty,
- downy,
- exacting,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- fleecy,
- flocculent,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- formidable,
- frightening,
- fringy,
- funicular,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- glochidiate,
- godawful,
- goshawful,
- gossamery,
- grim,
- hairlike,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harsh,
- hazardous,
- hirsute,
- hispid,
- icky,
- intricate,
- jagged,
- jawbreaking,
- jeopardous,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- lanate,
- ligamental,
- matted,
- mean,
- nappy,
- nerve-racking,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- operose,
- perilous,
- pilose,
- precarious,
- problematic,
- pubescent,
- punk,
- putrid,
- rigorous,
- risky,
- ropy,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scabrous,
- scary,
- scraggy,
- set with thorns,
- setaceous,
- setose,
- setous,
- severe,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- shitty,
- silky,
- spiny,
- steep,
- stinking,
- stinky,
- strenuous,
- strigal,
- strigate,
- strigose,
- stringy,
- stubbled,
- stubbly,
- studded,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- tangled,
- thorny,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- treacherous,
- trichoid,
- tricky,
- tufted,
- uncertain,
- uneven,
- unhealthy,
- unshaven,
- unshorn,
- unsmooth,
- unsound,
- uphill,
- vomity,
- whiskered,
- wicked,
- wiry,
- woolly,
- worrying,
- yecchy
- hardy
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- English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
- United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
- able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"
- having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" related words >
- abiding,
- able-bodied,
- age-long,
- aged,
- ancient,
- antique,
- beefy,
- bold,
- bold-spirited,
- bouncing,
- brave,
- cartilaginous,
- chewy,
- chivalric,
- chivalrous,
- chronic,
- cohesive,
- constant,
- continuing,
- coriaceous,
- courageous,
- daring,
- deciduous,
- diuturnal,
- doughty,
- durable,
- enduring,
- ephemeral,
- evergreen,
- fearless,
- fibrous,
- fit,
- flush,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- forcy,
- full-blooded,
- full-strength,
- gallant,
- greathearted,
- gristly,
- gutsy,
- gutty,
- hale,
- hale and hearty,
- half-hardy,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- healthy,
- hearty,
- hefty,
- heroic,
- herolike,
- husky,
- immutable,
- intransient,
- intrepid,
- inveterate,
- iron-hard,
- ironhearted,
- knightlike,
- knightly,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- lionhearted,
- long-lasting,
- long-lived,
- long-standing,
- long-term,
- longeval,
- longevous,
- lusty,
- macrobiotic,
- manful,
- manly,
- mighty,
- nervy,
- obstinate,
- of long duration,
- of long standing,
- perdurable,
- perduring,
- perennial,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- plucky,
- potent,
- powerful,
- puissant,
- red-blooded,
- remaining,
- resistant,
- robust,
- robustious,
- robustuous,
- ropy,
- rude,
- rugged,
- sempervirent,
- sinewy,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- sound,
- stable,
- stalwart,
- staying,
- steadfast,
- steely,
- stiff,
- stout,
- stouthearted,
- strapping,
- stringy,
- strong,
- strong as brandy,
- strong as strong,
- strong-willed,
- stubborn,
- sturdy,
- tenacious,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- unfading,
- untiring,
- valiant,
- valorous,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- vital,
- wiry
- resistant
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- impervious to being affected; "resistant to the effects of heat"; "resistant to persuasion" related words >
- against,
- airtight,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- at odds,
- averse,
- ballproof,
- beyond control,
- bombproof,
- bony,
- breachy,
- breakaway,
- bulletproof,
- burglarproof,
- cartilaginous,
- cement,
- cemental,
- chewy,
- clashing,
- cohesive,
- complaining,
- concrete,
- conflicting,
- contradicting,
- contradictory,
- contumacious,
- coriaceous,
- corneous,
- corrosionproof,
- counteractant,
- counteracting,
- counteractive,
- countervailing,
- counterworking,
- cranky,
- crotchety,
- cursory,
- dampproof,
- defiant,
- dense,
- diamondlike,
- differing,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- disputatious,
- disputing,
- dissentient,
- dissenting,
- dissident,
- durable,
- dure,
- fibrous,
- fire-resisting,
- fireproof,
- flameproof,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- foolproof,
- forced,
- fractious,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- gristly,
- hard,
- hard as nails,
- hardhearted,
- hardy,
- hermetic,
- holeproof,
- horny,
- hostile,
- immovable,
- immune,
- impervious,
- impervious to,
- incorrigible,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- inimical,
- insuppressible,
- intractable,
- intransigent,
- involuntary,
- iron-hard,
- ironlike,
- irrepressible,
- lapideous,
- lasting,
- leakproof,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- lithoid,
- lithoidal,
- marble,
- marblelike,
- mutinous,
- noiseproof,
- nonconformist,
- noncooperative,
- nonsusceptible to disease,
- obdurate,
- objecting,
- obstinate,
- obstreperous,
- obstructive,
- on the barricades,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- oppositional,
- oppugnant,
- osseous,
- out of hand,
- perfunctory,
- perverse,
- proof,
- proof against,
- protesting,
- punctureproof,
- reactionary,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- repellent,
- repugnant,
- resisting,
- resistive,
- restive,
- retardant,
- retardative,
- revolutionary,
- rocklike,
- rocky,
- ropy,
- rustproof,
- shatterproof,
- shedding,
- shellproof,
- shrewish,
- sinewy,
- solid,
- soundproof,
- steellike,
- steely,
- stiff,
- stonelike,
- stony,
- stringy,
- strong,
- stubborn,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tenacious,
- tight,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- unaffected,
- unbiddable,
- uncompliant,
- unconsenting,
- uncontrollable,
- uncooperative,
- ungovernable,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmoldable,
- unruly,
- unsubmissive,
- untiring,
- unwilling,
- unyielding,
- up in arms,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- watertight,
- weatherproof,
- wild,
- wiry,
- withstanding
- stubborn
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- tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield related words >
- adamant,
- adamantine,
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- assiduous,
- balking,
- balky,
- bigoted,
- bulldogged,
- bulldoggish,
- bulldoggy,
- bulletheaded,
- bullheaded,
- cantankerous,
- cartilaginous,
- case-hardened,
- chewy,
- clingy,
- cohesive,
- constant,
- continuing,
- contumacious,
- coriaceous,
- determined,
- diligent,
- dogged,
- dogmatic,
- dour,
- durable,
- enduring,
- faithful,
- fanatic,
- fibrous,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- gluey,
- glutinous,
- gristly,
- gummy,
- hard,
- hardheaded,
- hardy,
- headstrong,
- hidebound,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- impliable,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- inductile,
- industrious,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inextensible,
- inextensile,
- inextensional,
- inflexible,
- insistent,
- insubordinate,
- intolerant,
- intractable,
- intractile,
- intransigent,
- invincible,
- iron,
- ironbound,
- ironclad,
- ironhanded,
- irresilient,
- lasting,
- leatherlike,
- leathery,
- loyal,
- mulish,
- muscle-bound,
- never-tiring,
- nonelastic,
- nonstretchable,
- obdurate,
- obstinate,
- opinionated,
- ornery,
- orthodox,
- overzealous,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pigheaded,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- procrustean,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritan,
- puritanic,
- rapt,
- rebellious,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- relentless,
- resistant,
- resolute,
- restive,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigoristic,
- rigorous,
- rockbound,
- ropy,
- sedulous,
- self-adhesive,
- self-willed,
- set,
- sinewy,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stickable,
- sticky,
- stiff,
- stiff-necked,
- straightlaced,
- straitlaced,
- stringy,
- strong,
- strong-willed,
- strongheaded,
- stunt,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- tacky,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- tough,
- tough as leather,
- unabating,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- uncompromising,
- unconquerable,
- uncooperative,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unextendible,
- unextensible,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflexible,
- unflinching,
- ungiving,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unlimber,
- unmalleable,
- unnodding,
- unpliable,
- unpliant,
- unregenerate,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- untractable,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- utterly attentive,
- vigorous,
- viscid,
- wayward,
- weariless,
- willful,
- wiry
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