Synonyms for hardship
ˈhɑrd ʃɪphard·ship

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1. hardship

   Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

   Synonyms:
   adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, harm, ill, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

   Antonyms:
   blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

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1. hardship

   Synonyms:
   trouble, burden, annoyance, grievance, calamity, infliction, endurance, affliction

   Antonyms:
   pleasure, amusement, alleviation, recreation, gratification, relief, assuagement, facilitation, boon, treat

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1. adversity, hardship, hard knocksnoun

   a state of misfortune or affliction

   "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"

   Synonyms:
   rigor, rigourousness, severeness, adversity, severity, grimness, asperity, rigorousness, rigour, hard knocks

2. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousnessnoun

   something hard to endure

   "the asperity of northern winters"

   Synonyms:
   hardness, cogency, hard knocks, severeness, rigor, austereness, harshness, gruesomeness, asperity, luridness, rigour, stiffness, inclemency, badness, adversity, rigorousness, sharpness, grimness, severity, rigourousness, ghastliness, validity

3. hardshipnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   rigor, rigourousness, severeness, adversity, severity, grimness, asperity, rigorousness, rigour, hard knocks

Matched Categories

1. • Difficulty
   • Misfortune

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hardshipnoun

   Synonyms:
   toil, fatigue

2. hardshipnoun

   Synonyms:
   grievance, suffering, trial, affliction, calamity, misfortune, trouble, burden

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1. hardshipnoun

   Synonyms:
   privation, adversity, affliction, reverse, calamity, disaster, visitation

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1. List of paraphrases for "hardship":

   difficulties, difficulty, plight, suffering, deprivation, distress, difficult, misery, challenges, subjection, adversity, penury, constraint, predicament, arduous

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How to use hardship in a sentence?

1. John F. Kennedy:

   Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

2. South African:

   The arrival of these vaccines contains the promise that we can turn the tide on this disease that has caused so much devastation and hardship in our country and across the world.

3. Maria Garcia:

   , it's been a tough fight to put up a home in the midst of hardship, but we never gave in nor let ourselves be swept away by sadness.

4. Antony Blinken:

   The families of Americans who are held captive abroad, we know that they also face incredible hardship, we remain in regular contact with these families, we are grateful for their partnership, we are grateful for their feedback – we continue to work to ensure we are communicating and sharing information with them in a way that is useful.

5. Ashlynne Haycock:

   People are absolutely shocked that this happened, and they weren't planning for it, it has been a severe hardship for surviving families.