Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.
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
hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)
Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
• softship
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
23 May 2025
(adverb) showing consideration and thoughtfulness; “he had thoughtfully brought with him some food to share”
Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.