hardship

Noun
Synonyms: adversityhard knocksasperitygrimnessrigorrigourseverityseverenessrigorousnessrigourousness

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a state of misfortune or affliction“debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity”“a life of hardship”Synonyms: adversityhard knocks
  2. something hard to endure“the asperity of northern winters”Synonyms: asperitygrimnessrigorrigourseverityseverenessrigorousnessrigourousness
  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”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]
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