| hardship | | |
| n. (state) | 1. adversity, hard knocks, hardship | a state of misfortune or affliction.; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" |
| ~ ill-being | lack of prosperity or happiness or health. |
| ~ bad luck, ill luck, tough luck, misfortune | an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. |
| ~ disaster, catastrophe | a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune.; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster" |
| ~ extremity | an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease). |
| ~ distress | a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need).; "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress" |
| ~ affliction | a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity. |
| ~ victimization | adversity resulting from being made a victim.; "his victimization infuriated him" |
| ~ low-water mark, nadir | an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity | something hard to endure.; "the asperity of northern winters" |
| ~ difficultness, difficulty | the quality of being difficult.; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" |
| ~ sternness | the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding.; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable" |
| n. (event) | 3. hardship | something that causes or entails suffering.; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"; "the many hardships of frontier life" |
| ~ misfortune, bad luck | unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event. |
| ordeal | | |
| n. (event) | 1. ordeal | a severe or trying experience. |
| ~ experience | an event as apprehended.; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" |
| n. (act) | 2. ordeal, trial by ordeal | a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence. |
| ~ trial | (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law.; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial" |
| hard | | |
| adj. | 1. difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| ~ demanding | requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill.; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding" |
| ~ challenging, ambitious | requiring full use of your abilities or resources.; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" |
| ~ arduous | difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill.; "the arduous work of preparing a dictionary" |
| ~ embarrassing, unenviable, sticky, awkward | hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment.; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign" |
| ~ baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, elusive, tough | making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" |
| ~ catchy, tricky | having concealed difficulty.; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow" |
| ~ ticklish, touchy, delicate | difficult to handle; requiring great tact.; "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" |
| ~ fractious | unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome.; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system" |
| ~ hard-fought | requiring great effort.; "a hard-fought primary" |
| ~ herculean | extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules.; "a herculean task" |
| ~ nasty, tight | exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent.; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" |
| ~ rocky, rough | full of hardship or trials.; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time" |
| ~ tough, rugged | very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution.; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" |
| ~ serious | requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve.; "raised serious objections to the proposal"; "the plan has a serious flaw" |
| ~ tall | impressively difficult.; "a tall order" |
| ~ thorny | bristling with perplexities.; "the thorny question of states' rights" |
| ~ troublesome | difficult to deal with.; "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation" |
| ~ trying | hard to endure.; "fell upon trying times" |
| ~ vexed | causing difficulty in finding an answer or solution; much disputed.; "the vexed issue of priorities"; "we live in vexed and troubled times" |
| ~ effortful | requiring great physical effort. |
| ~ hard | dispassionate.; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer" |
| adj. | 2. hard | dispassionate.; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer" |
| ~ difficult, hard | not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?" |
| ~ calculating, calculative, scheming, conniving, shrewd | used of persons.; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" |
| ~ case-hardened, hardened, hard-boiled | used of persons; emotionally hardened.; "faced a case-hardened judge" |
| ~ steely | resembling steel as in hardness.; "steely eyes"; "steely nerves like those of a steeplejack" |
| ~ merciless, unmerciful | having or showing no mercy.; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" |
| ~ insensitive | deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive.; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" |
| ~ tough | not given to gentleness or sentimentality.; "a tough character" |
| adj. | 3. hard | resisting weight or pressure. |
| ~ adamantine | having the hardness of a diamond. |
| ~ al dente | of pasta cooked so as to be firm when eaten. |
| ~ corneous, hornlike, horny | made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn). |
| ~ erect, tumid | of sexual organs; stiff and rigid. |
| ~ firm, solid | not soft or yielding to pressure.; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground" |
| ~ granitelike, rocklike, granitic, stony | hard as granite.; "a granitic fist" |
| ~ hardened, set | converted to solid form (as concrete). |
| ~ woody | made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls. |
| ~ petrous, stonelike | (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness. |
| ~ semihard | somewhat hard. |
| ~ steely | resembling steel in hardness. |
| ~ unyielding | resistant to physical force or pressure.; "an unyielding head support" |
| adj. | 4. hard, knockout, severe | very strong or vigorous.; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow" |
| ~ strong | having strength or power greater than average or expected.; "a strong radio signal"; "strong medicine"; "a strong man" |
| adj. | 5. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" |
| ~ effortful | requiring great physical effort. |
| adj. | 6. hard, surd, unvoiced, voiceless | produced without vibration of the vocal cords.; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'" |
| ~ whispered | spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords.; "a long whispered conversation" |
| adj. | 7. concentrated, hard | (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source. |
| adj. | 8. hard | (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum.; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants" |
| ~ velar | produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing'). |
| adj. | 9. hard, heavy, intemperate | given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors.; "a hard drinker" |
| ~ indulgent | characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone.; "indulgent grandparents" |
| adj. | 10. hard, strong | being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content.; "hard liquor" |
| ~ alcoholic | characteristic of or containing alcohol.; "alcoholic drinks" |
| adj. | 11. hard, tough | unfortunate or hard to bear.; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 12. hard | dried out.; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before" |
| ~ stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age.; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" |
| adv. | 13. hard | with effort or force or vigor.; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard" |
| adv. | 14. firmly, hard | with firmness.; "held hard to the railing" |
| adv. | 15. hard | earnestly or intently.; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused" |
| adv. | 16. hard, severely | causing great damage or hardship.; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure" |
| adv. | 17. hard | slowly and with difficulty.; "prejudices die hard" |
| adv. | 18. hard, heavily, intemperately | indulging excessively.; "he drank heavily" |
| adv. | 19. hard | into a solid condition.; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours" |
| adv. | 20. hard | very near or close in space or time.; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening" |
| adv. | 21. hard | with pain or distress or bitterness.; "he took the rejection very hard" |
| adv. | 22. hard | to the full extent possible; all the way.; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left" |
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