1. (

• adversity ,
• hardship ,
• hard_knocks

) a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" ;

2. (

• asperity ,
• grimness ,
• hardship ,
• rigor ,
• rigour ,
• severity ,
• severeness ,
• rigorousness ,
• rigourousness

) something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" ;

3. (

• hardship

) 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" ;