Hardship Definition
härdshĭp
hardships
noun
hardships
Hard circumstances of life.
Webster's New World
The condition of lacking necessities or comforts; privation or suffering.
American Heritage
A thing hard to bear; specific cause of discomfort or suffering, as poverty, pain, etc.
Webster's New World
The difficulty or distress resulting to an individual or entity from a court decision, zoning decision, or passage of a law; taken into account as one factor in an equity proceeding.
Webster's New World Law
(countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
Other Word Forms of Hardship
Noun
Singular:
hardshipPlural:
hardshipsOrigin of Hardship
-
From Middle English herdschipe, hardischipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.
From Wiktionary
Hardship Is Also Mentioned In
Find Similar Words
Find similar words to hardship using the buttons below.