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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

H`ARDSHIP, n. Toil; fatigue; severe labor or want; whatever oppresses the body.
1. Injury; oppression; injustice.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: adversity, hardship, hard knocks]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
3: 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"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 13th century 1. privation, suffering 2. something that causes or entails suffering or privation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 severe suffering or privation. 2 the circumstance causing this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hardship Hard"ship, n. That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc. --Swift.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hardships) Hardship is a situation in which your life is difficult or unpleasant, often because you do not have enough money. Many people are suffering economic hardship... One of the worst hardships is having so little time to spend with one's family. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Toil, fatigue, weariness. 2. Grievance, suffering, trial, affliction, calamity, misfortune, trouble, burden, hardness.

Moby Thesaurus

adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, annoyance, asperity, austerity, bad luck, blight, broken fortune, bummer, care, cross, curse, danger, deprivation, difficulties, difficulty, discomfort, distress, downer, drudgery, embarrassment, genteel poverty, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hard pinch, hardcase, hardness, hazard, ill fortune, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, insolvency, irritation, light purse, mischance, misery, misfortune, narrow means, peril, plight, poorness, poverty, predicament, pressure, privation, rigor, sea of troubles, slender means, straitened circumstances, straits, stress, stress of life, suffering, tight squeeze, toil, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, unhappiness, unprosperousness, vale of tears, vicissitude, voluntary poverty, vows of poverty, want