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Synonyms for hardships
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hahrd-ship |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrd ʃɪp |
Top 10 synonyms for hardships Other synonyms for the word hardships
- accident
- affliction
- asperity
- austerity
- case
- curse
- destitution
- distress
- drudgery
- grievance
- hard knocks
- Herculean task
- injury
- labor
- mischance
- misery
- misfortune
- need
- oppression
- peril
- persecution
- privation
- rainy day
- rigor
- rotten luck
- sorrow
- suffering
- toil
- torment
- tough break
- tough luck
- travail
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- uphill battle
- vicissitude
- want
- worry
Définition of hardships
Origin :- c.1200, "quality of being hard," from hard + -ship. Meaning "disadvantage, suffering, privation" is c.1400.
- noun personal burden
- You were once my comfort, Clarissa; you made all my hardships tolerable:—But now!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- My hardships, I felt, were by reason of my disobedience to God's will.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- If we go on we shall have hardships, and perhaps, some pretty severe ones.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- He has never known any hardships or been forced into any self-denial.
- Extract from : « Great Uncle Hoot-Toot » by Mrs. Molesworth
- But his wife was dying from the hardships she had suffered, due to stark poverty.
- Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
- The hardships and the misery the poor folks had, God alone knows.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- It began to seem to Jimmy that he was in for a chapter of accidents and hardships.
- Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
- It was a land of hardships and strife and it left its mark on them all.
- Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
- The others had succumbed to the hardships of the service and been discharged.
- Extract from : « War from the Inside » by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
- Were there no hardships, this would be no pilgrimage worthy of the name.
- Extract from : « Afloat on the Ohio » by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Antonyms for hardships
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