hardship

Meanings

Plural: hardships

Noun

• a state of misfortune or affliction
  • "a life of hardship"
• something hard to endure
• something that causes or entails suffering; - James Boswell
  • "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"
  • "the many hardships of frontier life"
• Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
• A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.

Verb

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

Synonyms

adversity, affliction, aggrievance, anguish, asperity, difficulty, distress, grief, grievance, grimness, hard knocks, hardship, misery, pain, problem, rend, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, ruth, sadness, severeness, severity, smart, sorrow, torment, torture, trouble, undelight, vexation, woe, wrong

Antonyms

enthusiasm, softship