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Antonyms for hard times
Grammar : Noun |
- abundance
- acceptance
- advance
- advantage
- aid
- allowance
- approval
- ascent
- assistance
- benefit
- blessing
- boon
- bulge
- calm
- calmness
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- choice
- comfort
- commendation
- compliment
- contentment
- convenience
- convexity
- delight
- ease
- encouragement
- endorsement
- exoneration
- favor
- felicity
- flattery
- forgiveness
- fortune
- good fortune
- good luck
- happiness
- health
- help
- hope
- hopefulness
- inclusion
- increase
- joy
- joyfulness
- joyousness
- luxury
- miracle
- peace
- pleasure
- plenty
- praise
- profit
- prosperity
- protuberance
- ratification
- recovery
- relief
- reward
- rise
- sanction
- success
- surge
- wealth
- welcome
- wonder
Definition of hard times
- As in rebuff : noun turning away; ignoring
- As in rebuke : noun reprimand; harsh criticism
- As in recession : noun reversal of action; reduction of business activity
- As in rejection : noun denial, refusal
- As in reprimand : noun oral punishment
- As in bad luck : noun rotten break
- As in bad time : noun agony
- As in slump : noun decline, failure
- As in trial : noun trouble, big problem
- As in tribulation : noun pain, unhappiness
- As in storm cloud : noun dark cloud
- As in adversity : noun bad luck, situation
- As in depression : noun economic decline
- As in distress : noun hardship, adversity
- I seen some hard times myself, and this boy's father was a fighter, too.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- The papers are having a good deal to say these days about "hard times."
- Extract from : « The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885 » by Various
- Look at Elinor—would we love her if she'd been fussing about the hard times we had?
- Extract from : « Miss Pat at School » by Pemberton Ginther
- There were hard times, even in the wilderness of Kentucky, after the War of 1812.
- Extract from : « The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln » by Wayne Whipple
- The hard times affect him no more than a fly would a rhinoceros.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 » by Various
- During the hard times of 1785-86 these golden dreams vanished.
- Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
- The whole of Hard Times is the expression of just such a realisation.
- Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
- But this tale of Hard Times is in some way harsher than all these.
- Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
- Prosperity should enable us to put away a reserve for the hard times.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
- Hard times and unlocked for reverses come, therefore you should play safe.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Synonyms for hard times
- admonishment
- admonition
- adversity
- affliction
- albatross
- anguish
- annoyance
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad period
- bad times
- bane
- bankruptcy
- bawling out
- bawling-out
- bear market
- berating
- big trouble
- blame
- blight
- blow
- blue devils
- blue funk
- bother
- bottom
- bottom out
- bottom-out
- bounce
- brush-off
- brushoff
- bummer
- burden
- bust
- calamity
- calling down
- calvary
- can of worms
- care
- castigation
- catastrophe
- censure
- check
- chewing-out
- chiding
- clutch
- cold shoulder
- collapse
- comeuppance
- complication
- condemnation
- contretemps
- correction
- crash
- crisis
- cross to bear
- crucible
- crunch
- curse
- cut
- decline
- defeat
- deflation
- denial
- depreciation
- depression
- descent
- destitution
- devil's own luck
- difficulty
- dip
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disaster
- discouragement
- dislocation
- dismissal
- distress
- double whammy
- downer
- downslide
- downswing
- downtrend
- downturn
- drag
- dressing-down
- drop
- dumps
- earful
- elimination
- evil eye
- exclusion
- exigency
- expostulation
- failure
- fall
- falling-off
- funk
- go-by
- going over
- going-over
- grief
- grilling
- grooming
- hard cheese
- hard knock
- hard knocks
- hard luck
- hard time
- hard times
- hardship
- hassle
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- heavy weather
- holy mess
- hot water
- hurting
- ill fortune
- ill luck
- inactivity
- inconvenience
- indigence
- inflation
- insult
- irritation
- jam
- jinx
- kick in teeth
- kick in the teeth
- kiss of death
- lecture
- lesson
- letdown
- load
- low
- mischance
- misery
- misfortune
- mishap
- need
- nightmare
- nix
- no dice
- no go
- no way
- nothing doing
- nuisance
- objurgation
- on the skids
- opposition
- oppression
- ordeal
- ostracism
- overproduction
- pain
- pain in the neck
- panic
- paralysis
- pass
- persecution
- pest
- pickle
- piece of one's mind
- pinch
- plague
- poison
- poverty
- privation
- punishment
- put-down
- ragging
- rain cloud
- rainy day
- rainy days
- rap
- rating
- raw deal
- rebuff
- rebuke
- recession
- refusal
- rejection
- remonstrance
- renunciation
- reprehension
- reprimand
- reproach
- reproof
- reproval
- repudiation
- repulse
- retrenchment
- reverse
- rigor
- rotten luck
- row
- rut
- sag
- scolding
- scrape
- setback
- severe test
- shakeout
- slap in the face
- slap on wrist
- slide
- slight
- slip
- slowness
- slump
- snub
- sorrow
- stagflation
- stagnation
- straits
- suffering
- talking-to
- telling-off
- the skids
- the worst
- third degree
- thorn
- throe
- thumbs down
- ticklish spot
- tongue-lashing
- torture
- tough break
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- trough
- trying time
- turndown
- unemployment
- unhappiness
- unholy mess
- upbraiding
- veto
- vexation
- vicissitude
- visitation
- want
- what for
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
- wronging
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