hardship
pronunciation
How to pronounce hardship in British English:
UK [ˈhɑːdʃɪp]
How to pronounce hardship in American English:
US [ˈhɑːrdʃɪp]
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- Noun:
- a state of misfortune or affliction
- something hard to endure
- something that causes or entails suffering
Word Origin
- hardship (n.)
- c. 1200, "quality of being hard" (obsolete), from hard (adj.) + -ship. Meaning "disadvantage, suffering, privation" is c. 1400.
Example
- 1. The economic hardship will help provide recruits for terrorist outfits .
- 2. A more orthodox upbringing may have spared great hardship .
- 3. The potential for political turmoil and human hardship is staggering .
- 4. Everyone in the cellar has a similar story of hardship or death .
- 5. I was spared the hardship and grief most suffer in prison .