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Definition of Hardship
1. Noun. A state of misfortune or affliction. "A life of hardship"
Specialized synonyms: Ill-being, Catastrophe, Disaster, Extremity, Distress, Affliction, Victimization, Low-water Mark, Nadir
Generic synonyms: Bad Luck, Ill Luck, Misfortune, Tough Luck
Derivative terms: Adverse
2. Noun. Something hard to endure. "The asperity of northern winters"
Generic synonyms: Difficultness, Difficulty
Specialized synonyms: Sternness
Derivative terms: Grim, Severe
3. Noun. Something that causes or entails suffering. "The many hardships of frontier life"
Definition of Hardship
1. n. That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
Definition of Hardship
1. Noun. (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hardship
1. a difficult, painful condition [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardship
Literary usage of Hardship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... and it would work an unreasonable hardship not to do so, that interest will
be allowed the guardian on any item of disbursement from the date of payment ..."
2. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"Economic hardship is an important factor in this connection. Women upon whom
heavy home or field labours fall are less fertile than those living under ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"His Lordship then adverted briefly to the great hardship of the case, and the
result was, that the time was enlarged on the usual terms, ..."
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