Hardship

Quick meaning: Hardship is a noun meaning Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Meaning

Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

More Meanings

1. A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
2. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

Example Sentences

He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.

[…] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]

If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.

Word Forms

• hardships
• hardshipping
• hardshipped

Synonyms for hardship

Depending on context, synonyms include distress, grief, anguish, rend, difficulty, pain.

Antonyms for hardship

Common opposites include softship, enthusiasm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include severity, adversity, asperity, rigour, grimness, rigorousness.

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