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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, often humorous) A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience..
In 1856 I courted hardship, went out of my way in search of it, selected the North because hardship was most attainable there ; now my object is exactly reversed, it is not hardship, but (I should like to say "softship," but dare not) the utmost […]
Until you have mended a tire on a muddy road at dusk and turned a crank for five reels of the most deadly movies, you have an entirely misleading notion as to the softships of relief work. I can think of no work of theirs more satisfying to the worker herself […]
Yet not a hardship only, because a sizeable sector of living in, on, and around motoring was softship and little else.
[…] hardships he so gracefully endured amid numbered leave-takings from the softship of his father's customized cabin were notable and should be recorded for future invalids. real and imaginary. Exactly who was part of this airborne sodality?
Use softship when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Softship means (rare, often humorous) A situation marked by ease, comfort, or convenience..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include hardship.
In 1856 I courted hardship, went out of my way in search of it, selected the North because hardship was most attainable there ; now my object is exactly reversed, it is not hardship, but (I should like to say "softship," but dare not) the utmost […]
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