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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King