Nouns (13)
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hardship
n. 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"
adversity, hardship, hard knocks
n. a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
n. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
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Fuzzynyms (38)
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visitation
n. any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
crucible, melting pot
n. a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions
ordeal, trial by ordeal
n. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
difficulty
n. a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"
visitation
n. any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
suffering, woe
n. misery resulting from affliction
privation, want, deprivation, neediness
n. a state of extreme poverty
affliction
n. a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health
challenge
n. a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
crisis
n. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
emergency
n. a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency"
pass, strait, straits
n. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
ordeal, trial by ordeal
n. a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
drawback
n. the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"
handicap
n. advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
pitch
n. the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
exactness, exactitude
n. the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude"
cruelty, cruelness, harshness
n. the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness
n. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
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Antonyms (13)
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fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion
n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
prosperity, successfulness
n. the condition of prospering; having good fortune
ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness
n. freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back"
hardship
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