About The Word Hardship

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Hardship

Hardship Meaning & Definition
Hardship Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hardship?

[n] something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[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"
[n] a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hardship: adversity | asperity | grimness | rigor | rigorousness | rigour | severity

Related Terms | Find terms related to Hardship: adverse circumstances | adversity | affliction | aggravation | annoyance | asperity | austerity | bad luck | blight | broken fortune | bummer | care | cross | curse | danger | deprivation | difficulties | difficulty | discomfort | distress | downer | drudgery | embarrassment | genteel poverty | hard knocks | hard life | hard lot | hard pinch | hardcase | hardness | hazard | ill fortune | impecuniosity | impecuniousness | insolvency | irritation | light purse | mischance | misery | misfortune | narrow means | peril | plight | poorness | poverty | predicament | pressure | privation | rigor | sea of troubles | slender means | straitened circumstances | straits | stress | stress of life | suffering | tight squeeze | toil | travail | trial | tribulation | trouble | troubles | unhappiness | unprosperousness | vale of tears | vicissitude | voluntary poverty | vows of poverty | want

See Also | affliction | bad luck | bad luck | catastrophe | difficultness | difficulty | disaster | distress | extremity | ill luck | ill-being | low-water mark | misfortune | misfortune | nadir | tough luck | victimization

Hardship In Webster's Dictionary

\Hard"ship\, n. That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. --Swift.

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