Synonyms for Ordeal:

• n.

  •
  • crisis,
  • stress,
  • worst-case scenario,
  • battle.
  •
  • easy,
  • visitation.
  •adversity (noun)
  • difficulty,
  • bane,
  • casualty,
  • agony,
  • tragedy,
  • destitution,
  • catastrophe,
  • grief,
  • rainy day,
  • blight,
  • misadventure,
  • disaster,
  • hard luck,
  • dolor,
  • trouble,
  • bad luck,
  • torment,
  • calamity,
  • woe,
  • hardship,
  • misfortune,
  • mishap,
  • peril,
  • contretemps,
  • infliction,
  • adversity,
  • poverty,
  • poorness.
  •affliction (noun)
  • dis eases,
  • dis-ease,
  • mis fortunes,
  • dis-eases,
  • mis fortune,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • dis ease,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis order,
  • dis-order,
  • dis orders,
  • mis-fortune.
  •baptism of fire (noun)
  • baptism fire,
  • rude introductions,
  • test courage,
  • hazings,
  • trial by fires,
  • baptism-fire,
  • rite passage.
  •despair (noun)
  • forlornnesses.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • formidability,
  • trickiness,
  • knottiness,
  • complication,
  • strenuousness,
  • fussiness,
  • contrariness,
  • tightness,
  • wearying,
  • cantankerousness,
  • roughness,
  • wearisomeness,
  • toughness,
  • cumbersomeness,
  • hardness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • harshness,
  • onerousness,
  • arduousness,
  • complexity,
  • ticklishness,
  • stressfulness.
  •distress (noun)
  • head-ache,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis comfort,
  • de-solation,
  • worriments,
  • dis quietude,
  • dis-tress,
  • un happiness,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis-appointment,
  • un-happinesses,
  • dis quietudes,
  • de solations,
  • de solation,
  • un happinesses,
  • de-solations,
  • dis tress,
  • dis appointment,
  • dis-comforts,
  • unconsolabilities,
  • dis comforts,
  • dis-appointments,
  • un-happiness,
  • dis appointments,
  • dis-quietude.
  •event (noun)
  • ordeal.
  •hell (noun)
  • everlasting fire,
  • hell-fire,
  • infernal regions,
  • place of torment,
  • hell fire,
  • lower world,
  • underworld,
  • infernal region.
  •living hell (noun)
  • tortures damned,
  • tortures of damned,
  • tortures the damned,
  • living-hell.
  •martyrdom (noun)
  • unselfishness,
  • self-immolation,
  • self-sacrifice.
  •misery (noun)
  • sordidnesses.
  •predicament (noun)
  • jam,
  • predicament,
  • perplexity,
  • dilemma,
  • pickle,
  • problem,
  • quandary,
  • plight,
  • fix.
  •rigor (noun)
  • in flexibility,
  • in tolerance,
  • in-flexibilities,
  • in-clemencies,
  • in flexibilities,
  • in tolerances,
  • in-clemency,
  • in-tolerance,
  • traditionalisms,
  • in clemencies,
  • in clemency,
  • in-flexibility,
  • in-tolerances.
  •test (noun)
  • in quests,
  • trial error,
  • in-quest,
  • in-quests,
  • blue books,
  • pop quizzes.
  •trauma (noun)
  • traumatization,
  • up set.
  •trial (noun)
  • in conveniences,
  • pain neck,
  • in-convenience,
  • calvaries,
  • in-conveniences,
  • severe tests,
  • trying times,
  • pain in neck,
  • cross bear.
  •tribulation (noun)
  • re-verse,
  • wrongings,
  • re verse.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mire,
  • mess,
  • pressure-cooker,
  • poetic justice,
  • entanglement,
  • impasse,
  • no-win situation,
  • victimhood,
  • treadmill,
  • travail,
  • whammy,
  • imbroglio,
  • double whammy,
  • toils,
  • perfect storm,
  • probation,
  • slippery slope,
  • the hot seat,
  • information overload,
  • stalemate,
  • living hell,
  • juggling act,
  • quagmire,
  • fate,
  • double bind,
  • purgatory,
  • logjam,
  • rat race,
  • deadlock,
  • the school of hard knocks,
  • overcrowding,
  • bitter pill.
  •
  • discomfort,
  • whirlpool,
  • carnage,
  • crucible,
  • palaver,
  • imposition,
  • gridlock,
  • horror story,
  • cul de sac,
  • the doldrums,
  • jungle,
  • dead-end,
  • bad hair day,
  • tangle.
  •
  • black hole,
  • spiral.
  •
  • scrape,
  • tension,
  • horror,
  • night,
  • rub.
  •
  • pit,
  • trap.
  •
  • crunch,
  • spot.
  •
  • knock.
  •
  • corner.
  •
  • low.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dole,
  • anxiety,
  • blow,
  • ill luck,
  • determination,
  • disquiet,
  • nuisance,
  • trial by ordeal,
  • cross,
  • incident,
  • feeling out,
  • magic circle,
  • trials and tribulations,
  • litmus paper,
  • hassle,
  • plague,
  • care,
  • adventure,
  • episode,
  • criterion,
  • tribulations,
  • fret,
  • ghost dance,
  • standard,
  • prediction,
  • cark,
  • proof,
  • acid test,
  • pestilence,
  • touchstone,
  • circumstance,
  • sabbat,
  • reagent,
  • pix,
  • brouillon,
  • rough draft,
  • punishment,
  • troubles,
  • torture,
  • irritant,
  • scourge,
  • solicitude,
  • inconvenience,
  • crucial test,
  • blank determination,
  • shock,
  • try,
  • rough sketch,
  • Sortilege,
  • bad fortune,
  • irritation,
  • happening,
  • deception,
  • essay,
  • cataclysm,
  • sounding out,
  • first draft,
  • ring,
  • event,
  • discomposure,
  • test case,
  • gauntlet,
  • affair,
  • encounter,
  • onus,
  • divination,
  • Kiteflying,
  • appeal to arms,
  • load,
  • Turmeric paper,
  • wretchedness,
  • pain,
  • worry,
  • assay,
  • check,
  • occurrence,
  • dolour,
  • examination,
  • ordeals,
  • tryout,
  • pain in thearse,
  • anguish,
  • annoyance,
  • bind,
  • bother,
  • verification,
  • bitterness,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • chaos.

Paraphrases for Ordeal:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    cheers, hardship, agony, challenge, examination, torture, scourge, incident.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    plight, adversity, torment, predicament, suffering, misery, trial, distress, tragedy, retrial, anguish.

Antonyms for Ordeal:

• n.

  • trouble, suffering
    comfort, joy, peace, happiness, pleasure, contentment, health.

Hyponym for Ordeal:

• n.

  • event
    experience.