Noun: hardship 'haa(r)d,ship
- A state of misfortune or affliction
"a life of hardship";
- adversity, hard knocks [informal]
- Something that causes or entails suffering
"the many hardships of frontier life"
- The quality of being hard to endure, uninviting or formidable
"the hardship of northern winters";
- asperity, grimness, rigor [US], rigour [Brit, Cdn], severity, severeness [rare], rigorousness
Derived forms: hardships
Type of: bad luck, difficultness, difficulty, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck
Encyclopedia: Hardship