Hardship

Definitions: Hardship

Hardship

Noun

1. A state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship".

2. Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters".

3. Something that causes or entails suffering: "I cannot thinking it a hardship that more more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hardship" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Finance

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Synonyms: Hardship

Adversity

Trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.

Crosswords: Hardship

There aren't any promises. Nothing certain. Only that some get called, others saved. She won't ever know of the hardship and grief of those of us left behind. (Alien�; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940)

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Books

• A Chronicle of Hardship and Hope (reference)

• Hardship Posting vol. 1 (reference)

• Hoop Dreams: A True Story of Hardship and Triumph (reference)

• The Gifts of Caregiving: Stories of Hardship, Hope, and Healing (reference)

• The Road to Poverty : The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Indeed, having by his fault forfeited his own life, by some act that deserves death; he, to whom he has forfeited it, may (when he has him in his power) delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service, and he does him no injury by it: for, whenever he finds the hardship of his slavery outweigh the value of his life, it is in his power, by resisting the will of his master, to draw on himself the death he desires. (Second Treatise of Government)

Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those conditions is urgently required: as, for example, by the regulation of the hours of work, including the establishment of a maximum working day and week, the regulation of the labour supply, the prevention of unemployment, the provision of an adequate living wage, the protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment, the protection of children, young persons and women, provision for old age and injury, protection of the interests of workers when employed in countries other than their own recognition of the principle of freedom of association, the organisation of vocational and technical education and other measures; Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries; The HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following: CHAPTER l. (reference)

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (reference)

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Children

Congo

Parents under severe economic hardship no longer can afford to educate both their sons and their daughters, resulting in the withdrawal of many girls from school. (references)

Nigeria

When economic hardship restricts many families' ability to send girls to school, many girls are directed into commercial activities such as trading and street vending. (references)

El Salvador

The Government estimates that 150,000 children stopped attending school due to family hardship and damage to school buildings caused by major earthquakes in January and February. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

This creates a hardship for a disproportionate number of Muslim citizens. (references)

Korea

Many North Koreans in Russia face severe hardship due to their lack of any identification. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Official permission must be obtained to use the cremation facilities in every instance, posing a hardship for the large Hindu community. (references)

Discrimination

Vietnam

Some military veterans of the pre-l975 government still face economic hardship as a result of past employment restrictions and discrimination, but none are known still to be incarcerated for their activities before 1975. These veterans and their families generally are unable to obtain employment with the Government. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

The aforementioned requirements to not appear to pose any hardship or impediment for U.S. investors. (references)

Yemen

The tolerance level of Yemen's public for further economic hardship brought by reform is wearing thin. (references)

Human Rights

Mongolia

Families continue to gain better access to inmates, alleviating some of the hardship in obtaining food and clothing. (references)

Turkmenistan

Citizens who built their homes without the approval from the Government were not offered alternate accommodations, despite their personal investment in the property, their length of occupancy, or the degree of hardship they faced as a result. (references)

Political Economy

Kyrgyz Republic

Pensioners, unemployed workers, and government workers with low salaries or unpaid benefits continued to face considerable hardship. (references)

Travel

Sri Lanka

Additional attacks, especially on infrastructure facilities, could result in future tightening of security, causing hardship to travelers. (references)

Women

Yemen

A woman seeking a divorce also must repay the mahr (a portion of her bride price), which creates an additional hardship. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

The migration of children from rural to urban areas is increasing, due to economic hardship. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "hardship": hardship case. Additional references.

Ending with "hardship": semi-hardship.

Albanian

vuajtje (affliction, agony, anguish, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, gyp, martyrdom, misery, pain, rack, suffering, torment, tribulation), varfëri (beggary, indigence, infertility, manginess, misery, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, squalor, want), mundim (cross, effort, excruciation, intension, martyrdom, pain, rack, sweat, torment, torture, trouble), mjerim (adversity, destitution, grief, misery, misfortune, pauperism, penury, squalor, woe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏معاناة (anguish, bear a load, illness, misery, sufferance, suffering, tribulation), ‏نصب كد او عناء, ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), ‏ضنى (exhaust, languish, spend, tire, tucker), ‏ضائقة, ‏أذى (disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, harm, hurst, injury, injustice, insult, lesion, mayhem, trauma, violence, wickedness, zenana), ‏بلاء (curse, ill, illness, inflexion, infliction, ordeal, plague, sore, trouble, worry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страдание (affliction, disease, infliction, malady, misery, pain, sufferance, suffering), трудност (ado, crux, difficulty, hardness, hurdle, involvement, knot, nicety, rough, severity, stumbling block, toughness), нужда (call, destitution, distress, necessary, necessity, need, pinch, privation, requirement, use, want), затруднение (ado, cumber, difficulty, drawback, embarrassment, encumbrance, hang up, hard sledding, hitch, involvement, jackpot, perplexity, pinch, predicament, pressure, quandary, rub, scrape, spot, tickler, tight corner, tight squeeze, trouble), беда (adversity, bale, disaster, distress, infelicity, infliction, mischief, misfortune, plight, stroke, teen, trouble, woe), изпитание (ordeal, probation, proof, tax, test, trial, tribulation, visitation). (various references)

Chinese 

艱 (difficult, hard), 磨 (grindstone, to delay, to grind, to rub, to sharpen), 困难 (Difficult, Difficulties, Difficulty). (various references)

Czech

utrpení (affliction, calvary, distress, suffering), strádání (affliction, deprivation, destitution, privation). (various references)

Danish

usædvanlige problemer, tilfælde af force majeure, modgang (adversity), genvordigheder (adversity). (various references)

Dutch

toestand van overmacht, overmacht en schade (adversity). (various references)

Farsi 

محنت (Bale, Distress, Pain, Toil, Tribulation), مشقت (Pressure, Travail), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence). (various references)

Finnish

ylivoimainen este (act of God, adversity, cause outside one's control, circumstances outside one's control, force majeure, vis major), force majeure-tilanne, force majeure (adversity). (various references)

French

hardship, souffrance, situation de force majeure, pauvreté, disposition relative aux personnes démunies de ressources, difficulté exceptionnelle, épreuves. (various references)

German

not (affliction, destitution, difficulty, distress, emergency, misery, necessity, need, neediness, penury, poverty, pressure, privation, problem, trouble, want), Mühsal (attempt, effort, toil, tribulation). (various references)

Greek 

κακουχία (privation). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתלא�" (distress, weariness), מצוק�" (adversity, distress, misery, need, straits, stress), תלא�" (suffering, trouble, weariness). (various references)

Hungarian

nélkülözés (destitution, distress, necessity, want, wantingness). (various references)

Indonesian

kesakitan (be ill, illness, in pain, sickness). (various references)

Italian

avversit� (adversity, hostile, ill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辛苦 (toil, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

な�"ぎょうくぎょう (penance), な�"ぎ (affliction, difficulty), くるしみ (anguish, distress, pain, suffering), し�"く (crimson, deep crimson, scarlet, toil, trouble), ひ�"く (serious poverty), うきめ (bitter experience, distress, grief, misery, sad thoughts), �"�"く (privation), ろうく (aged body, labor, one's old bones, toil). (various references)

Korean 

빈� . (various references)

Manx

doilleeys (stiffness), doilleeid (difficulty, dilemma, hobble, stiffness, ticklishness, toughness), doccarys (arduousness, drudgery, irksomeness, laboriousness, labour), arkys (affliction, difficulty, distress, misfortune, need). (various references)

Norwegian

motgang. (various references)

Pig Latin

ardshiphay.(various references)

Portuguese

hardship (adversity), sofrimento (ache, affliction, agony, endure, gall, hurt, ill feeling, inflorescence, pain, passion, soreness, sorrow, sufferance, suffering, teen, teener, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble), privação (bereavement, deprivation, dividable, Miss, privation), miséria (affliction, distress, gripe, misery, penurity, penury, poverty, privative, sorriness, squalor, want), fadiga (difficulty, fatigue, tiredness, toil, weariness, weight, work, works), estar embaraçado, dificuldade (ado, awkwardness, check, checkout, complicacy, cramp, crux, deterrent, difficulty, distress, embassy, encumbrance, fix, handicap, hardness, hindrance, hitch, hobble, holdback, impediment, intricacy, knot, let, matter, mess, need, niche, Nodus, obstacle, obstruction, plummet, quagmire, Ravel, rub, scrape, stress, trammels, trouble). (various references)

Romanian

suferinţã (ache, agony, cross, distress, endurance, heart ache, infliction, misery, pain, smart, suffering, trouble), privaţiune (deprivation, privation), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), greutate (arduousness, authority, avoirdupois, bother, burden, charge, cumber, difficulty, embarrassment, encumbrance, hardness, heaviness, heft, load, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight), dificultate (ado, complication, crux, difficulty, doubt, hardness, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, inconvenience, need, ponderosity, ticklishness, trouble), blestem (ban, blasphemy, calamity, cancer, curse, damn, damnation, execration, imprecation, malediction, offence, perdition), ananghie (bay, difficulty, morass, pinch, trouble, want), încercare grea (ordeal), încercare (attempt, crack, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, experiment, go, proof, shy, suffering, tempting, tentative, test, trial, try, visitation, whack). (various references)

Russian 

нужда (beggary, destitution, dire necessity, distress, indigence, necessity, need, privation), лишения (destitution, privation), лишение (deprivation, destitution, divestiture, privation). (various references)

Scottish

cruadal (hardihood), airc (distress, poverty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tegoba (difficulty, rigor, rigour), štrapac. (various references)

Spanish

trabajos (work done under contract), sufrimientos, prueba (assay, audition, correction, demonstration, endorsement, event, evidence, exam, exercise, exhibit, experiment, fitting, Gage, gauge, indorsation, indorsement, offer, paper, problem, proof, proving, race, sign, specimen, test, test specimen, testing, token, trial, trouble, try out), privación (abridgement, abridgment, confinement, confiscation, deprivation, detraction, privation), penas (woe), infortunio (adversity, ill, mischance, misfortune), dificultades excepcionalmente gravosas, contingencia o condición negativa (adversity), apuro (difficulty, extremity, hole, hurry, jam, need, pinch, plight, predicament, privation, push, quandary, trouble). (various references)

Swedish

vedermöda (endurance, labor, labour, tribulation), umbärande (privation), strapats (fatigue), möda (effort, pains, painstaking, toll, trouble). (various references)

Turkish

zorluk (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complication, difficulty, entanglement, gaff, grueling, gruelling, hardness, hassle, hobble, rigor, rigour, rough, strain, stumbling block, tightness, toughness), yoksulluk (bareness, calamity, destitution, misery, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation), yokluk (absence, absentness, dearth, exiguity, failure, famine, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, penury, poverty, privation, shortage, Strait, straits, tightness, want), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, load, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), güçlük (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complicacy, difficulty, hassle, hurdle, oppression, rub, stumbling block), cefa (calvary, cruelty, long-suffering, rigor, rigour, suffering, torment). (various references)

Ukranian 

тяготи, труднощі (ado, asperities, difficulty, entanglement), нестатки (need). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thử thách gay go, sự gian khổ (arduousness, ruggedness). (various references)

Welsh

caledi (hardness). (various references)

bad. (various references)

aerumna, aerumnae, aerumnas, aerumnis, difficultas, difficultatem, difficultates, duritia, duritiae, duritiam, labor, labore, laborem, labores, laboribus, laboris, laborum. (various references)

gedeorf. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hardship": hardships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hardship" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardsheil, ardship, hardhip, hardish, Hardshaw, harshin, Hartishek. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: aphids, parish, radish, raphis, rapids, shaird, sparid.

-3 letters: aphid, aphis, apish, dashi, drips, hairs, hards, harps, harsh, padis, padri, pairs, pardi, pards, paris, raids, rapid, sapid, shard, sharp, spahi.

-4 letters: aids, airs, arid, dahs, dais, daps, dash, dips, dish, drip, hahs, hair, haps, hard, harp, hash, hasp, hips, padi, pads, paid, pair, pard, pars, pash, phis, pias, pish, rads, raid, raps, rash, rasp, rias, rids, rips, sadi, said, sard, sari, shad, shah, ship, shri, spar.

-5 letters: ads, aid, air, ais, ars, ash, asp, dah, dap, dip, dis, had, hah, hap, has, hid, hip, his, ids, pad, pah, par, pas, phi, pia, pis, psi, rad, rah, rap, ras, ria, rid, rip, sad, sap, sha, shh, sip, sir, spa, sri.

+1 letter: hardships.

+3 letters: diphtherias, harpsichord.

+4 letters: harpsichords, hydropathies, hydrophobias.

+5 letters: haphazardries, hydrographies, hypochondrias.

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