HARDSHIP

asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness

(noun) something hard to endure; “the asperity of northern winters”

hardship

(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”

adversity, hardship, hard knocks

(noun) a state of misfortune or affliction; “debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity”; “a life of hardship”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)

Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Antonyms

• softship

Verb

hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)

(transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

Source: Wiktionary


Hard"ship, n.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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