Definition for Hardship:

• Something hard to endure, as exposure or injustice.

Synonyms for Hardship:

• n.

  •
  • baggage,
  • problem.
  •
  • nightmare,
  • heavy sledding.
  •adversity (noun)
  • curse,
  • agony,
  • poorness,
  • grief,
  • destitution,
  • mishap,
  • peril,
  • disaster,
  • misadventure,
  • casualty,
  • torment,
  • bane,
  • ordeal,
  • dolor,
  • rainy day,
  • infliction,
  • hard times,
  • blight,
  • contretemps,
  • distress.
  •burden (noun)
  • worry.
  •crisis (noun)
  • Exigence.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • laboriousness,
  • painfulness,
  • arduousness,
  • quandary.
  •hardship (noun)
  • grimness,
  • rigorousness,
  • asperity,
  • rigour.
  •injury (noun)
  • accident.
  •millstone (noun)
  • millstone.
  •personal burden (noun)
  • want.
  •poverty (noun)
  • dearth,
  • indigence,
  • insufficiency,
  • Beggarliness,
  • tenuity,
  • pennilessness,
  • pauperism,
  • embarrassment,
  • paucity,
  • insolvency,
  • homelessness,
  • impoverishment,
  • famine,
  • bankruptcy,
  • penury,
  • lack,
  • asceticism,
  • mendicancy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hassle,
  • pitfall,
  • jigsaw,
  • exigency,
  • nuisance.
  •
  • downfall,
  • strain,
  • aggravation.
  •
  • snag.
  •Other relevant words:
  • chastening,
  • indignity,
  • harm,
  • tight squeeze,
  • powerfully,
  • painful,
  • clumsy,
  • strongly,
  • bummer,
  • cogency,
  • grind,
  • low,
  • predicament,
  • mischance,
  • ungraceful,
  • sullen,
  • condense,
  • Difficulties,
  • miserable,
  • violently,
  • while away,
  • load,
  • blast,
  • pinch,
  • badness,
  • affront,
  • unpleasant,
  • outrage,
  • confine,
  • hold,
  • almost,
  • necessity,
  • gruesomeness,
  • harsh,
  • nasty,
  • inconvenience,
  • bad,
  • harshly,
  • weigh,
  • simply,
  • bitterness,
  • circularly,
  • whet,
  • extremity,
  • failure,
  • self-mortification,
  • cross,
  • everywhere,
  • disquiet,
  • waste time,
  • swearing off,
  • reduce,
  • subjugation,
  • distressing,
  • abuse,
  • cut,
  • suffer,
  • enslavement,
  • dire,
  • bleakness,
  • Desisting,
  • inclementness,
  • generally,
  • nearly,
  • narrow means,
  • obscure,
  • keeping away from,
  • hazard,
  • bear,
  • active,
  • Impecuniosity,
  • anguish,
  • giving up,
  • sicken,
  • cramped,
  • pain,
  • straitened circumstances,
  • case,
  • abate,
  • industrious,
  • plight,
  • hard case,
  • hard life,
  • intensely,
  • labor,
  • thereabouts,
  • severely,
  • hardcase,
  • hindrance,
  • irritation,
  • vehemently,
  • arduous,
  • literalness,
  • grievous,
  • self-deprivation,
  • accept,
  • abbreviate,
  • strictness,
  • inflexibility,
  • indistinct,
  • subjection,
  • roughly,
  • chastisement,
  • frequently,
  • self-denial,
  • desolation,
  • unevenly,
  • stringency,
  • straits,
  • hardness,
  • cold,
  • torture,
  • broadly,
  • toil,
  • precision,
  • oppression,
  • sharpen,
  • maltreatment,
  • ruination,
  • abide,
  • poor,
  • tough luck,
  • turn around,
  • testing,
  • depression,
  • uphill battle,
  • about,
  • ghastliness,
  • restrict,
  • refusal,
  • downer,
  • arrange,
  • difficult,
  • approximately,
  • sternness,
  • hard,
  • restrain,
  • awkward,
  • adverse,
  • disorder,
  • Formidableness,
  • abstemiousness,
  • strenuous,
  • laborious,
  • despotism,
  • rigourousness,
  • annoyance,
  • Unprosperousness,
  • abstention,
  • rub,
  • exhausting,
  • punctilio,
  • abhor,
  • curb,
  • impecuniousness,
  • delay,
  • inconvenient,
  • gloom,
  • coarsely,
  • severeness,
  • altogether,
  • dolour,
  • lessen,
  • austerity,
  • unhappiness,
  • painstaking,
  • harshness,
  • dilemma,
  • rigidity,
  • bar,
  • wrong,
  • pare,
  • repression,
  • need,
  • hard lines,
  • luridness,
  • beggary,
  • melancholy,
  • busy,
  • bind,
  • abominate,
  • inhospitableness,
  • distressed,
  • govern,
  • wretchedness,
  • vexation,
  • disservice,
  • ruin,
  • vague,
  • mischief,
  • commonly,
  • persecution,
  • in difficulty,
  • fatigue,
  • rigours,
  • injury,
  • disconsolateness,
  • danger,
  • stiffness,
  • abstinence,
  • renunciation,
  • Refusing,
  • ordinarily,
  • validity,
  • troubles,
  • anywhere,
  • drudgery,
  • herculean task,
  • regularly,
  • sharpness,
  • travail,
  • test,
  • contain,
  • sadness,
  • uneasiness,
  • deeply,
  • unfairness,
  • hot spot,
  • debase,
  • abrade,
  • around,
  • diligent,
  • hardships,
  • impediment,
  • voluntary poverty,
  • Gordian Knot,
  • vale of tears,
  • suppression,
  • tyranny,
  • exactness,
  • Renouncing,
  • straitened,
  • rudely,
  • curtail,
  • indeterminate,
  • sad,
  • Rigorism,
  • Neediness,
  • just.

Paraphrases for Hardship:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    distress.
  • Noun, plural
    Adversities.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    adversity, privation, distress.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    troubles.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    issues.
  • Noun, plural
    predicaments, Complexities, travails, WOES.
  • 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.
  • Verb, past tense
    Challenged, faced, Encountered, limited.
  • Verb, past participle
    deprived, experienced, complicated, Challenged, faced, Encountered.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    difficulty, Difficulties.
  • Noun, plural
    Difficulties.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deprivation, misery, suffering, destitution, hardness, inconvenience, difficulty, wretchedness, discomfort, poverty.

Antonyms for Hardship:

• n.

  • 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.
  • Other antonyms:
    gratification, opportunity, consolation, triumph.

Hyponym for Hardship:

• n.

  • event
    bad luck, misfortune.