hardship
If something is a hardship, it causes suffering or unpleasantness. After all the hardship you endured while training for the marathon, you really hope that you’ll do well — or at least finish!
The word hard in hardship is a tip-off to its meaning: something that’s a hardship is hard. It could be hard work that you do for a larger goal — like training for the marathon — or it could be a situation that’s hard to endure. If you lose your job, you could end up experiencing financial hardship. Sometimes a hardship is something that just happens, like the hardship people suffer following a disaster.
Definitions of hardship
-
something hard to endure
-
synonyms:
asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity-
types:
-
sternness
the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
-
type of:
-
difficultness, difficulty
the quality of being difficult
-
sternness
-
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”-
type of:
-
bad luck, misfortune
unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event
-
bad luck, misfortune
-
a state of misfortune or affliction
“a life of
hardship”-
synonyms:
adversity, hard knocks-
types:
- show 13 types…
- hide 13 types…
-
ill-being
lack of prosperity or happiness or health
-
catastrophe, disaster
a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
-
extremity
an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
-
distress
a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
-
affliction
a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity
-
victimization
adversity resulting from being made a victim
-
low-water mark, nadir
an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
-
miserableness, misery, wretchedness
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
-
anguish
extreme distress of body or mind
-
bitter end
the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be)
-
pressure
an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress
-
throe
hard or painful trouble or struggle
-
cross, crown of thorns
any affliction that causes great suffering
-
type of:
-
bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck
an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
Word Family