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. Emily Benfer:

   The message to landlords right now is, truly, the public health largely rests in your hands, because of the link of eviction and the spread of Covid-19, it is critical that you apply for rental assistance and wait to evict because of the long-term hardship and also the immediate threat to Covid-19 surge that this will create.

2. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

   There are those who've said let's just pause. But the families who are suffering know that hunger doesn't take a pause, the rent doesn't take a pause, the bills don't take a pause, the hardship of losing a job or tragically losing a loved one doesn't take a pause.

3. Haji Janan:

   They have given us permission to harvest our fields this year because of our hardship.

4. The IHME:

   Many states will face enormous pressure on hospital capacity and will likely have to re-impose some social distancing mandates, the best strategy to delay re-imposition of mandates and the associated economic hardship is to expand mask use.

5. Sallust:

   For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.