hardship
(noun)
noun
1. a state of misfortune or affliction
- a life of hardship
Similar word(s): adversity
Definition categories: state, misfortune
2. something hard to endure
Similar word(s): asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severeness, severity
Definition categories: attribute, difficultness, difficulty
3. something that causes or entails suffering
- I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women
- the many hardships of frontier life
Definition categories: event, misfortune
Sentences with hardship as a noun:
- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.