hardship

n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers

struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {adversity}]

2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

[syn: {asperity}, {grimness}, {rigor}, {rigour}, {severity},

{rigorousness}]

3: something that causes or entails suffering: "I cannot

thinking it a hardship that more more indulgence is

allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many

hardships of frontier life"