hardship : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hardship	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hardship
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hardship n a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" Synonym(s): adversity, hardship, hard knocks something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" Synonym(s): asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hardship \Hard"ship\, n. That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. --Swift.