What is another word for hardship?
617 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ hˈɑːdʃɪp], [ hˈɑːdʃɪp], [ h_ˈɑː_d_ʃ_ɪ_p]Table of Contents
Similar words for hardship:- adversity (noun)
- affliction (noun)
- asperity (noun)
- bad luck (noun)
- burden (noun)
- calamity (noun)
- care (noun)
- catastrophe (noun)
- crisis (noun)
- damage (noun)
- deprivation (noun)
- difficulty (noun)
- difficulty, trouble (noun)
- dire straits (noun)
- disadvantage(s) (noun)
- discomfort (noun)
- event (noun)
- exigency/exigence (noun)
- grievance (noun)
- grimness (noun)
- hard knocks (noun)
- hardship (noun)
- hot spot (noun)
- injury (noun)
- injury, loss (noun)
- millstone (noun)
- misery (noun)
- misfortune (noun)
- misfortune/mishap (noun)
- obstacle (noun)
- personal burden (noun)
- pinch (noun)
- poverty (noun)
- predicament (noun)
- pressure (noun)
- reverse (noun)
- rigor (noun)
- sorrow (noun)
- strait (noun)
- stress (noun)
- tragedy (noun)
- trial (noun)
- unfortunateness (noun)
- unluckiness (noun)
- untowardness (noun)
- woe (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Hardship:
n.
•adversity (noun)- curse,
- agony,
- poorness,
- grief,
- destitution,
- mishap,
- peril,
- disaster,
- misadventure,
- casualty,
- torment,
- bane,
- ordeal,
- dolor,
- rainy day,
- infliction,
- hard times,
- blight,
- contretemps,
- distress.
- devil's luck,
- devil own luck,
- hard lucks,
- devil own lucks,
- tough breaks,
- mis chances,
- devils lucks,
- devil luck,
- devils luck,
- mis-chances,
- ill lucks,
- devils own lucks,
- rotten lucks,
- devils own luck,
- mis chance,
- mis-chance,
- devil's own lucks,
- devil lucks,
- bad-luck,
- hard cheeses,
- devil's lucks.
- unholy messes,
- blue ruins,
- mis-adventures,
- holy messes,
- mis adventures,
- mis-adventure,
- mis adventure.
- dis-composures,
- un happinesses,
- dis composures,
- dis-quiet,
- un easiness,
- dis quiet,
- fore bodings,
- dis quiets,
- un-happiness,
- dis-may,
- dis may,
- mis-giving,
- un-easiness,
- mis giving,
- un-easinesses,
- un easinesses,
- dis composure,
- fore boding,
- fore-boding,
- un happiness,
- dis mays,
- fore-bodings,
- dis-composure,
- un-happinesses,
- dis-mays,
- dis-quiets,
- fretfulnesses.
- dis-possession,
- dis-possessions,
- with holdings,
- de privations,
- de-privation,
- with-holdings,
- dis possessions,
- with holding,
- dis possession,
- divestments,
- de-privations,
- with-holding,
- de privation.
- dis advantage,
- fly ointment,
- in convenience,
- dis commodities,
- in adequacies,
- dis-advantages,
- dis-commodity,
- in-convenience,
- in-utility,
- fly the ointment,
- dis advantages,
- in adequacy,
- in-utilities,
- fly in ointment,
- in conveniences,
- in utilities,
- dis commodity,
- in-conveniences,
- dis-advantage,
- in utility,
- in-adequacy,
- adverse circumstance,
- dis-commodities,
- blockings,
- in-adequacies.
- un-pleasantnesses,
- dis comforts,
- dis-pleasure,
- up sets,
- dis-comfort,
- un pleasantnesses,
- up-sets,
- in quietudes,
- in quietude,
- in-quietude,
- un pleasantness,
- un-pleasantness,
- dis-comforts,
- dis-pleasures,
- dis pleasures,
- in-quietudes,
- dis pleasure,
- up-set,
- dis comfort.
- pressingnesses,
- criticalnesses,
- needfulnesses,
- cross road,
- demandingnesses,
- imperativenesses,
- cross roads.
- mis fortunes,
- stroke bad luck,
- in felicities,
- in felicity,
- in-felicities,
- casualities,
- dis-appointments,
- dis appointment,
- dis-appointment,
- dis appointments,
- in-felicity,
- mis-fortunes.
- dis incentives,
- dis-incentive,
- re strictions,
- catch 22's,
- catch-22's,
- re-striction,
- dis incentive,
- re striction,
- catch22's,
- dis-incentives,
- catch22,
- re-strictions,
- catch 22.
- want.
- dearth,
- indigence,
- insufficiency,
- Beggarliness,
- tenuity,
- pennilessness,
- pauperism,
- embarrassment,
- paucity,
- insolvency,
- homelessness,
- impoverishment,
- famine,
- bankruptcy,
- penury,
- lack,
- asceticism,
- mendicancy.
- de-feat,
- de feats,
- de feat,
- re-versal,
- re pulses,
- re versal,
- de-feats,
- re-pulses,
- re-verse,
- conquerings,
- re verse.
- in-flexibilities,
- in-flexibility,
- traditionalisms,
- in clemency,
- in flexibilities,
- in tolerance,
- in-clemency,
- in-tolerances,
- in-clemencies,
- in-tolerance,
- in flexibility,
- in tolerances,
- in clemencies.
- ex-tensions,
- ex-tension,
- dis-quietudes,
- pro-traction,
- in-tensity,
- mis trust,
- dis-quietude,
- apprehensivenesses,
- over extension,
- dis quietude,
- over-extension,
- ex tension,
- mis-trust,
- tightnesses,
- nervous tensions,
- pro traction,
- over extensions,
- over-extensions,
- pro-tractions,
- tautnesses,
- tensities,
- tensenesses,
- pro tractions,
- mis trusts,
- in tensity,
- dis quietudes.
Other synonyms:
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- hassle,
- dead weight,
- growing pains,
- exigency,
- vicissitudes,
- vicious circle,
- nuisance,
- toughie,
- obstacle course,
- hot potato,
- body blow,
- jigsaw,
- pitfall,
- kink,
- disruption,
- shortcoming.
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- downfall,
- running sore,
- odds,
- aggravation,
- strain.
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- snag.
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- catch.
- about,
- coarsely,
- indignity,
- Rigorism,
- injury,
- pain,
- austerity,
- renunciation,
- dire,
- curb,
- indeterminate,
- labor,
- bar,
- sternness,
- mischief,
- herculean task,
- voluntary poverty,
- a hard nut to crack,
- hard case,
- contain,
- extremity,
- almost,
- severely,
- annoyance,
- suffer,
- rigidity,
- restrain,
- abate,
- disservice,
- fatigue,
- rub,
- ordinarily,
- straitened circumstances,
- inclementness,
- Renouncing,
- case,
- clumsy,
- hazard,
- vague,
- obscure,
- sicken,
- Impecuniosity,
- frequently,
- straits,
- laborious,
- awkward,
- grievous,
- danger,
- badness,
- broken fortune,
- stringency,
- distressed,
- chastening,
- desolation,
- adverse,
- maltreatment,
- cogency,
- abstention,
- nearly,
- tough luck,
- refusal,
- sharpen,
- sadness,
- literalness,
- abstemiousness,
- hard,
- testing,
- failure,
- sullen,
- repression,
- hardships,
- anywhere,
- test,
- tyranny,
- inflexibility,
- simply,
- swearing off,
- curtail,
- vale of tears,
- busy,
- waste time,
- bad,
- blast,
- depression,
- self-mortification,
- hot spot,
- torture,
- disorder,
- toil,
- lessen,
- govern,
- impecuniousness,
- abrade,
- subjection,
- unpleasant,
- Difficulties,
- Unprosperousness,
- persecution,
- broadly,
- arrange,
- intensely,
- wretchedness,
- outrage,
- Desisting,
- low,
- powerfully,
- bind,
- altogether,
- exactness,
- vehemently,
- rigourousness,
- plight,
- approximately,
- debase,
- luridness,
- circularly,
- beggary,
- violently,
- abstinence,
- uneasiness,
- precision,
- in difficulty,
- punctilio,
- miserable,
- despotism,
- while away,
- ungraceful,
- anguish,
- gloom,
- vexation,
- reduce,
- hardness,
- ruin,
- keeping away from,
- poor,
- harm,
- harshly,
- affront,
- pare,
- oppression,
- diligent,
- sad,
- suppression,
- abide,
- nasty,
- strenuous,
- grind,
- unhappiness,
- ruination,
- commonly,
- roughly,
- dolour,
- necessity,
- straitened,
- abbreviate,
- Refusing,
- giving up,
- self-denial,
- harshness,
- disquiet,
- abuse,
- cramped,
- painstaking,
- inhospitableness,
- bleakness,
- wrong,
- accept,
- Neediness,
- condense,
- hold,
- pinch,
- self-deprivation,
- cross,
- downer,
- thereabouts,
- drudgery,
- weigh,
- painful,
- troubles,
- gruesomeness,
- cold,
- uphill battle,
- bummer,
- generally,
- cut,
- predicament,
- disconsolateness,
- validity,
- unevenly,
- sharpness,
- enslavement,
- stiffness,
- inconvenience,
- just,
- hard life,
- delay,
- hardcase,
- indistinct,
- hindrance,
- abominate,
- rigours,
- abhor,
- bear,
- Gordian Knot,
- whet,
- deeply,
- ghastliness,
- Formidableness,
- industrious,
- inconvenient,
- regularly,
- need,
- distressing,
- unfairness,
- narrow means,
- irritation,
- active,
- harsh,
- rudely,
- confine,
- everywhere,
- strongly,
- arduous,
- load,
- melancholy,
- tight squeeze,
- chastisement,
- dilemma,
- exhausting,
- subjugation,
- travail,
- impediment,
- severeness,
- hard lines,
- difficult,
- bitterness,
- mischance,
- strictness,
- around,
- restrict,
- turn around.
Paraphrases for Hardship:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
distress.
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Noun, plural
Adversities.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, plural
troubles.
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Noun, plural
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
issues.
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Noun, plural
predicaments, Complexities, travails, WOES.
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Noun, singular or mass
predicament, Lacunae, penury, trouble, precariousness, harshness, shortage, misfortune, ordeal, subjection, malaise, squalor, toughness, duress, dilemma, stress, stresses, painstaking, anguish, stringency, scarcity, embarrassment, compulsion, disadvantage, downturn, despair, precarity, helplessness, grief, disruption, unhappiness, damage.
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Verb, past tense
Challenged, faced, Encountered, limited.
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Verb, past participle
deprived, experienced, complicated, Challenged, faced, Encountered.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
difficulty, Difficulties.
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Noun, plural
Difficulties.
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Noun, singular or mass
deprivation, misery, suffering, destitution, hardness, inconvenience, difficulty, wretchedness, discomfort, poverty.
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Proper noun, singular
Antonyms for Hardship:
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n.
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personal burden
miracle, favor, relief, comfort, wonder, calmness, delight, good luck, fun, fortune, cheer, good fortune, entertainment, success, peace, help, aid, good, pleasure, ease, benefit, safety, prosperity, blessing, gain, profit, contentment, praise, mildness, security, compliment, happiness, assistance, plenty, boon, health, advantage, joy.
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Other antonyms:
gratification, opportunity, consolation, triumph.
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personal burden
Hyponym for Hardship:
n.
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event
bad luck, misfortune.
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event