Associations to the word «Hardship»

Wiktionary

HARDSHIP, noun. (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

Dictionary definition

HARDSHIP, noun. A state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship".
HARDSHIP, noun. Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters".
HARDSHIP, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley