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HARDSHIP

Definition:

1. [noun] a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
   Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks
   
   
2. [noun] something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
   Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness
   
   
3. [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"
   
   

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Related Words:

• ill-being
• catastrophe, disaster
• extremity
• distress
• affliction
• victimization
• nadir, low-water mark

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