Dictionary Definition
hardship
Noun
1 a state of misfortune or affliction;
"debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of
hardship" [syn: adversity, hard
knocks]
2 something hard to endure; "the asperity of
northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness]
3 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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
Translations
difficulty or trouble
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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