- adversity, hardship, hard knocks - a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
--1 is a kind of misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill luck
--1 has particulars:ill-being; catastrophe, disaster; extremity; distress; affliction; victimization; nadir, low-water mark - asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
--2 is a kind of difficulty, difficultness
- hardship - 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"
--3 is a kind of misfortune, bad luck