Translation Japanese English: 手強い

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 accurate, assured, authentic, authoritative, certain, classic, classical, confident, convinced, correct, decisive, definite, definitive, dependable, exact, firm, foolproof, for sure, good, honest, incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable, positive, precise, reliable, right, safe, secure, sound, strong, sure, sure-footed, surefooted, true, trusted, unafraid, unfailing, untroubled.

5 accurate, assured, authentic, bona fide, certain, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, confident, convinced, correct, decipherable, decisive, definite, dependable, discernible, evident, exact, firm, good, honest, incontrovertible, irrefutable, observable, positive, precise, readable, reliable, right, safe, secure, sure, true, trustworthy, unquestionable, veritable.

6 adamant, adamantine, blunt, candid, fast, firm, forthright, frank, free-spoken, inexorable, intransigent, loyal, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, solid, staunch, steadfast, steady, stiff, straight-from-the-shoulder, strong, sure, tight, truehearted, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unswerving, unwavering.

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

8 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.

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

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

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

12 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.

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

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

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

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

17 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.

18 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.

19 certain, dependable, firm, good, honest, reliable, safe, secure, sound, steady, sure, true.

20 confident, convinced, fast, firm, incontrovertible, irrefutable, loyal, positive, resolute, steadfast, steady, stiff, truehearted, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.

21 fast, firm, immobile, loyal, solid, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, truehearted, unbendable, unfaltering, unfluctuating, unshakable, unwavering.

22 fast, firm, inflexible, loyal, steadfast, steady, stiff, sturdy, truehearted, unbendable, uncompromising, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.

23 fast, firm, level, loyal, solid, steadfast, steady, stiff, truehearted, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.

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

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

26 firm, impregnable, inflexible, inviolable, secure, steadfast, steady, stiff, strong, sturdy, unassailable, unattackable, unbendable, uncompromising, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering.

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

28 hardened, tempered, tough, toughened, treated.

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

30 resolute, tough, toughened.