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Hardship (Noun)

Meaning 1

A state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship".

Classification

Nouns denoting natural processes.

Synonyms

  • Hard Knocks
  • Adversity

Hypernyms

  • Tough Luck
  • Misfortune
  • Ill Luck

Hyponyms

  • Catastrophe
  • Extremity
  • Victimization
  • Nadir
  • Ill-being
  • Distress
  • Affliction

Meaning 2

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".

Classification

Nouns denoting natural events.

Hypernyms

  • Bad Luck

Meaning 3

Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters".

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Synonyms

  • Rigor
  • Grimness
  • Rigour
  • Severity
  • Rigorousness
  • Rigourousness
  • Asperity
  • Severeness

Hypernyms

  • Difficultness
  • Difficulty

Hyponyms

  • Sternness
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