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

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras