hardship
Plural: hardships
Noun
- A severe suffering, difficulty, or privation.
- a state of misfortune or affliction
- "a life of hardship"
- something hard to endure
- something that causes or entails suffering; - James Boswell
- "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"
- "the many hardships of frontier life"
- Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
- A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
Verb
- To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
Examples
- Despite the hardship of a poor tile rack, he still managed a decent score.
- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
- When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.
Synonyms
adversity, asperity, grimness, hard knocks, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, affliction, aggrievance, anguish, difficulty, distress, grief, grievance, hardship, misery, pain, problem, rend, ruth, sadness, smart, sorrow, torment, torture, trouble, undelight, vexation, woe, wrong
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
hardship: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhardship: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hardship: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary