English

Adjective

tough-minded ‎(comparative more tough-minded, superlative most tough-minded)

1. Not distracted from actual facts by enticements, intimidation, or sentimentality; steadfast in one's actions, commitments, beliefs, etc.
   • 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Benediction":

     [T]his was the Society of Jesus, founded in Spain five hundred years before by a tough-minded soldier who trained men to hold a breach or a salon, preach a sermon or write a treaty, and do it and not argue.

   • 1960 Aug. 29, "Great Britain: Somebody Out There Likes Us," Time:

     Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions—his own or anybody else's.

   • 2003 March 28, Paul Krugman, "Delusions of Power," New York Times (retrieved 5 July 2012):

     They considered themselves tough-minded realists, and regarded doubters as fuzzy-minded whiners.

Synonyms

• realistic, unsentimental, unwavering

References

• tough-minded at OneLook Dictionary Search