Translation Japanese English: 手ごわい

1 Byzantine, abstruse, baffling, confusing, convoluted, deep, elusive, esoteric, involved, knotty, perplexing, problematic, problematical, puzzling, recondite, tangled, tortuous, tough.

2 Byzantine, baffling, complex, complicated, convoluted, elusive, intricate, involved, knotty, mired, problematic, problematical, tangled, tortuous, tough.

3 Byzantine, baffling, convoluted, elusive, gnarled, gnarly, involved, knobbed, knotted, knotty, problematic, problematical, snarled, snarly, tangled, tortuous, tough.

4 afflictive, arduous, backbreaking, bad, baffling, elusive, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, knotty, labored, laborious, laboured, operose, painful, problematic, problematical, punishing, sore, strained, toilsome, tough.

5 arduous, austere, awkward, backbreaking, callous, difficult, dour, embarrassing, fibrous, forbidding, grim, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, heavy, indurate, knockout, laborious, operose, pachydermatous, punishing, rocky, rough, severe, sinewy, stern, sticky, stiff, stifling, stringy, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry, toilsome, tough, toughened, unchewable, unenviable, unyielding.

6 arduous, backbreaking, baffling, difficult, elusive, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, knotty, labored, laborious, laboured, operose, problematic, problematical, punishing, rugged, toilsome, tough, troubled, trying.

7 arduous, backbreaking, baffling, elusive, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, intemperate, knotty, laborious, operose, problematic, problematical, punishing, toilsome, tough, toughened.

8 bad, baffling, elusive, hard, knotty, problematic, problematical, ruffianly, rugged, sturdy, tough, toughened.

9 bad, big, firm, hard, harsh, impregnable, intense, inviolable, mighty, potent, powerful, resistant, robust, secure, solid, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, substantial, tolerant, tough, toughened, unassailable, unattackable, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.

10 baffling, barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, elusive, knotty, prickly, problematic, problematical, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny, tough.

11 baffling, debatable, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough.

12 baffling, elusive, firm, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough, toughened.

13 baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, subtle, tough.

14 buckram, contrary, dependable, fast, firm, formal, good, hard, honest, impregnable, inviolable, loyal, obstinate, perverse, reliable, rigid, safe, secure, solid, starchy, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, tight, tough, toughened, true, truehearted, unassailable, unattackable, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering, wayward.

15 buckram, contrary, dependable, fast, firm, good, hard, honest, impregnable, inviolable, loyal, obstinate, perverse, reliable, rigid, safe, secure, solid, starchy, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, stubborn, sure, tough, toughened, true, truehearted, unassailable, unattackable, unbendable, unfaltering, unregenerate, unshakable, unwavering, wayward.

16 firm, fixed, hard, rigid, set, solid, tough, toughened.

17 firm, hardy, impregnable, inviolable, secure, solid, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, toughened, unassailable, unattackable.

18 hard, rough, sturdy, tough, toughened, unsmooth.

19 hardened, tempered, tough, toughened, treated.

20 hardy, impregnable, inviolable, obstinate, robust, secure, stalwart, stout, strong, stubborn, sturdy, tough, toughened, unassailable, unattackable, unregenerate.

21 resolute, tough, toughened.