'Hardship' definitions:
Definition of 'hardship'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: adversity, hardship, hard knocks]
noun
Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
noun
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"
Definition of 'Hardship'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'hardship'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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