hardship

Meanings

Noun

• a state of misfortune or affliction
  • "a life of hardship"
• something hard to endure
• something that causes or entails suffering; - James Boswell
  • "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"
  • "the many hardships of frontier life"

Synonyms

adversity, asperity, grimness, hard knocks, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity