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hardship
noun as in personal burden
Strongest matches
adversity, calamity, catastrophe, danger, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, fatigue, grief, hazard, injury, misery, misfortune, oppression, peril, persecution, sorrow, suffering, torment, trouble, worry
Strong matches
accident, affliction, asperity, austerity, case, curse, destitution, distress, drudgery, grievance, labor, mischance, need, privation, rigor, toil, travail, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, want
Weak matches
Herculean task, hard knocks, rainy day, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle
Example Sentences
He recalls being told by the Pakistani mullahs - who he thinks were more political and more extreme than those he had encountered in Afghanistan - that Muslims must prevail so that hardship would not overwhelm them.
Closed campuses, economic hardship and disease held back student achievement starting in March of 2020.
After all, she technically chose this life, elected to be a mother no matter the hardships.
"A career can have some slightly more complicated years, years where you have a little more hardship," he said.
Historically, states of emergency have been declared during natural disasters; however, staff said the criteria for such an action could be applied to the hardships generated by immigration raids.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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