TENSILE Antonyms

• caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

• having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped

• lacking warmth and generosity of spirit

• (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured

• the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments

• with resolute determination

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• not soft or yielding to pressure

• strong and sure

• not subject to revision or change

• (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling

• not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall

• securely established

• possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue

• securely fixed in place

• unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause

• become taut or tauter

• make taut or tauter

• incapable of change

• not making concessions

• resistant to being bent

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)

• able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress

• impervious to being affected

• disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

• incapable of absorbing or mixing with

• designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances

• fixed and unmoving

• having a strong physiological or chemical effect

• an ordinary man

• the dead body of a human being

• to a great degree

• in a stiff manner

• not moving or operating freely

• strong, vigorous

• rigidly formal

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• incapable of or resistant to bending

• very drunk

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• stubbornly unyielding

• resistant to physical force or pressure

• That compresses