hardship

Speech parts

1. hardship - Noun

2. hardship - Verb

Meaning

That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

severity rigor adversity asperity rigour grimness rigorousness severeness bane need problem heartache travail want trial

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Antonyms

clover felicity success feature serenity practicability

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Hypernyms

difficulty misfortune bad luck difficultness ill luck tough luck

Hyponyms

plague nadir disaster distress catastrophe extremity

Phrases with the word

extreme hardship economic hardship hardship tale bear hardship accustom to hardship be free from hardship

Examples

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. Seneca

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. Nhat Hanh

After hardship comes relief. Swahili Proverb

It's a hardship that will go away. Arabic Proverb

Rest comes only after hardship. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hardscrabble life hardset hardshell hardship discharge hardship post hardship tale