a person who is able to deal with difficult situations and not be easily defeated, frightened, or upset:
- He's one tough cookie and he picked himself up and came back into the ring for more sparring.
- You have to be a pretty tough cookie to have qualified as a lawyer while raising a family.
- My co-workers were great—tough cookies who were also friendly and compassionate.
- In a male-dominated field, sometimes I don't get taken seriously. But I'm a tough cookie and the guys quickly learn not to judge me on the way I look.
- adamancy
- adamant
- adamantine
- adamantly
- aggressive
- going
- grittily
- gutsily
- gutsy
- gutty
- pertinacious
- pertinaciously
- pigheaded
- pigheadedly
- purposeful
- ultra-militant
- ultra-serious
- unbending
- unbroken
- undauntable
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