toughest
- 1Superlative of tough.
The final miles of the marathon are the toughest stretch of the entire course.
She faced the toughest decision of her career when the company nearly collapsed.
Note
The regular one-syllable pattern at work: tough simply adds -est, and the longer most tough, though grammatical, sounds stiff beside it. The superlative carries every meaning of the base word, so context decides which one is meant. The toughest steak resists the knife, the toughest critic will not give ground, the toughest neighborhood is the rowdy one, and the toughest winter is simply the harshest.
toughest is a form of tough
tough, adjective: Involving considerable difficulty, effort, or hardship; demanding to handle or endure. Full entry
- Spelling
- tough → toughest: add -est
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