Hardship - Definition
hardship
n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers
struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn:
adversity, hardship, hard knocks]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour,
severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
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"