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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hardship \Hard"ship\ (h[aum]rd"sh[i^]p), n.
     That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury,
     injustice, etc. --Swift.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  hardship
       n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers
            struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {adversity},
             {hard knocks}]
       2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
          [syn: {asperity}, {grimness}, {rigor}, {rigour}, {severity},
           {rigorousness}]
       3: 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "hardship":
     adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation,
     annoyance, asperity, austerity, bad luck, blight, broken fortune,
     bummer, care, cross, curse, danger, deprivation, difficulties,
     difficulty, discomfort, distress, downer, drudgery, embarrassment,
     genteel poverty, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hard pinch,
     hardcase, hardness, hazard, ill fortune, impecuniosity,
     impecuniousness, insolvency, irritation, light purse, mischance,
     misery, misfortune, narrow means, peril, plight, poorness, poverty,
     predicament, pressure, privation, rigor, sea of troubles,
     slender means, straitened circumstances, straits, stress,
     stress of life, suffering, tight squeeze, toil, travail, trial,
     tribulation, trouble, troubles, unhappiness, unprosperousness,
     vale of tears, vicissitude, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty,
     want
  
  

















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