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hardship
noun as in personal burden
Strongest matches
adversity, calamity, catastrophe, danger, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, fatigue, grief, hazard, injury, misery, misfortune, oppression, peril, persecution, sorrow, suffering, torment, trouble, worry
Strong matches
accident, affliction, asperity, austerity, case, curse, destitution, distress, drudgery, grievance, labor, mischance, need, privation, rigor, toil, travail, trial, tribulation, vicissitude, want
Weak matches
hard knocks, Herculean task, rainy day, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle
Example Sentences
Even when highway 330 and 38 are in good repair, Chivetta wrote, “the traffic on these roads caused by inexperienced winter drivers creates hardship for local residents and frustrates all drivers.”
Gen Z — born between 1997 and 2012 — has entered adulthood with slightly more stability, learning from the financial hardship lessons imposed on the previous generations.
But Coutinho said Labour's "rush" to decarbonise the electricity system by 2030 would push up electricity prices and cause more hardship for people across Britain.
As the eldest child, she was keen to get a job in order to rescue her siblings from hardship.
The DWP seeks to recover all benefit overpayments where it has a legal basis to do so, unless it would cause financial hardship or would not be cost effective.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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