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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a state of misfortune or affliction;
- Example: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"
- Example: "a life of hardship"
[syn: adversity, hardship, hard knocks]

2. something hard to endure;
- Example: "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]

3. something that causes or entails suffering;
- Example: "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell
- Example: "the many hardships of frontier life"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hardship \Hard"ship\ (h[aum]rd"sh[i^]p), n.
   That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury,
   injustice, etc. --Swift.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hardship
    n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers
         struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn:
         adversity, hardship, hard knocks]
    2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
       [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
       severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
    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"