/hɑˈɹdʃɪps/ - [hardships] -
We found 3 definitions of hardships from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: hardships |
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hardship - 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" | ||
hardship - a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" | ||
adversity, hard knocks | ||
ill luck, tough luck, misfortune, bad luck unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | ||
ill-being lack of prosperity or happiness or health | ||
catastrophe, disaster a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | ||
extremity an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" | ||
distress the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien" | ||
affliction a cause of great suffering and distress | ||
victimization adversity resulting from being made a victim; "his victimization infuriated him" | ||
hardship - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" | ||
asperity, grimness, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness | ||
difficultness, difficulty the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" |