hardship
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(noun) something that causes or entails suffering: "I cannot thinking it a hardship that more more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life" |
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Related Words: bad luck, misfortune |
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(noun) a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" |
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Synonyms: adversity |
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Related Words: affliction, bad luck, catastrophe, disaster, distress, extremity, ill, ill luck, ill-being, low-water mark, misfortune, nadir, trouble |
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(noun) something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" |
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Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severity |
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Related Words: difficultness, difficulty |
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