hardship

Nouns

  • (n) a state of misfortune or affliction
    • debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity
    • a life of hardship
    adversity, hard knocks,
  • (n) something hard to endure
    • the asperity of northern winters
    asperity, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, grimness, rigour, severeness, severity,
  • (n) something that causes or entails suffering
    • "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell
    • the many hardships of frontier life

Synonyms

adversity hard knocks asperity rigor rigorousness rigourousness grimness rigour severeness severity

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