hardship
Syllables: hard·ship/ˈhɑːdˌʃɪp/US/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
hardship noun: difficulty or trouble; hard times.
Noun
hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)
- Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
- If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377
- A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
- When you visit the museum, we invite you to make a donation of $10 if this will not be a hardship.
- Synonyms:
- distress, problem, sorrow, trouble, affliction, aggrievance, grief, grievance, misery, ruth
Verb
hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)
- To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
- […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]1969, Tract Series, numbers 96-129, page 529
- Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.1970, Reading Reform Foundation, The Annual Reading Reform Foundation Conference, page 47
hardship meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hardship in Hindi
- difficulty or trouble
- कष्ट kaṣṭ, मशक्कत maśakkat, सख्ती sakhtī
hardship in Tamil
- இன்னல், அல்லல், அவதி, கஷ்டம்
hardship in Marathi
- difficulty or trouble
- हालअपेष्टा hālapeṣṭā
hardship in Urdu
- hardship
- محنت mihnat
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- hardship in Bengali
- কষ্ট kośṭo
- hardship in Telugu
- ఇబ్బంది ibbandi, కష్టం kaṣṭaṁ, ఇడుము iḍumu
- hardship in Malayalam
- ഇടുക്കം iṭukkaṁ, ക്ലേശം klēśaṁ
- hardship in Kannada
- ತೊಂದರೆ, ಯಾತನೆ, ಒದ್ದಾಟ, ಪೇಚಾಟ
- hardship in Punjabi
- ਕਸ਼ਟ kaśaṭ
- hardship in Gujarati
- દ્વિધા dvidhā
- hardship in Odia
- ହାର୍ଡସିପ୍
- hardship in Arabic
- مَشَقَّة mašaqqa, شِدَّة šidda
- hardship in Persian
- مشقت mašaqqat, سختی saxti
Examples of hardship in a sentence
- In this time of economic hardship, there is only sufferation upon the land.
- Increasing prices and frozen wages add up to hardship for the poorer families.
- The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
Synonyms of hardship
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Forms of hardship
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hardships |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hardships |
| present participle | hardshipping |
| past participle | hardshipped |
| past | hardshipped |
Origin of hardship
From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.
Words formed from hardship
Phrases with hardship
Questions about hardship
- What does hardship mean?
- Hardship means difficulty or trouble; hard times.
- What is hardship in Hindi?
- Hardship in Hindi is कष्ट (kaṣṭ), मशक्कत (maśakkat), सख्ती (sakhtī). See Hardship meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hardship?
- Hardship can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hardship?
- Hardship is pronounced /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ (US).
- What is the plural of hardship?
- The plural of hardship is hardships.
Words near hardship in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hardship (page history and authors); hardship (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); محنت (Urdu) (page history and authors); কষ্ট (Bengali) (page history and authors); ഇടുക്കം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); hardship (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਕਸ਼ਟ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); દ્વિધા (Gujarati) (page history and authors); hardship (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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