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English Dictionary: adversity by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adversity
n
  1. a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
    Synonym(s): adversity, hardship, hard knocks
  2. a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; "a period marked by adversities"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Adversity \Ad*ver"si*ty\, n.; pl. {Adversities}. [OE. adversite,
      F. adversit[82], fr. L. adversitas.]
      1. Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
  
                     Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      Syn: Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble;
               suffering; trial.
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