Synonyms for hardship

Noun

1. adversity, hardship, hard knocks, misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck

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

2. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness, difficulty, difficultness

usage: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

3. hardship, misfortune, bad luck

usage: 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"