Related Words for hard time

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rainy day
/x/
Phrase, Noun
downfall
/x
Noun
stormy weather
/x/x
Name, Name
darkness
/x
Noun
weather
/x
Noun
heat
/
Noun
bout
/
Noun
downturn
/x
Noun
thick and thin
///
Phrase, Noun
low water
//x
Phrase, Noun
cold spell
//
Phrase, Noun
famine
/x
Noun
down
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
time out of mind
////
Phrase, Noun, Adverb
downtime
/x
Noun
hour
/x
Noun
hour of need
/x//
Phrase, Noun
night
/
Noun
depression
x/x
Noun
perfect storm
x//
Phrase, Noun
deep
/
Adjective
cold snap
//
Phrase, Noun
black
/
Name
tide
/
Noun
drought
/
Noun
eternity
x/xx
Noun
downpour
/x
Noun
dry spell
//
Phrase, Noun
demise
x/
Noun
waterworks
/xx
Noun
contraction
x/x
Noun
freezing cold
/x/
Phrase, Adjective, Noun
daytime
/x
Noun
depths
/
Noun
noon
/
Noun
melting point
/x/
Phrase, Noun
eleventh hour
x/x/x
Phrase, Noun
midwinter
//x
Noun
midyear
/x
Noun
doldrums
/x
Noun
nadir
/x
Noun
while
/
Noun
silent
/x
Adjective
doom
/
Noun
dead of winter
///x
Phrase, Noun
autumn
/x
Noun
bottom
/x
Noun
dead
/
Adjective
sleep
/
Noun
prime time
//
Phrase, Noun, Adjective
cliff
/
Noun
ungodly hour
x/x/x
Phrase, Noun
cold wave
//
Phrase, Noun
snow
/
Noun
dust
/
Noun
shut
/
Verb
languor
//
Noun
brooding
/x
Noun
gloom
/
Noun
days
/
Noun
dark space
//
Phrase, Noun
death
/
Noun
heat wave
//
Phrase, Noun
winter
/x
Noun
evening
/x
Noun
closing time
/x/
Phrase, Noun
high summer
//x
Phrase, Noun
dead of night
///
Phrase, Noun
dawn
/
Noun
raining
/x
Verb
blue moon
//
Phrase, Noun
sands
/
Noun
nighttime
/x
Noun
one of those days
////
Phrase, Noun
afternoon
xx/
Noun
full stop
//
Phrase, Noun
drop
/
Noun
catastrophe
x/xx
Noun
hail
/
Noun
plummet
/x
Verb
fine line
//
Phrase, Noun
delaying
x/x
Verb
bedtime
/x
Noun
outage
/x
Noun
passing
/x
Noun
cold
/
Noun
back end
//
Phrase, Noun
meltdown
/x
Noun
dinnertime
/xx
Noun
break
/
Noun
descent
x/
Noun
lowe
/
Name
recession
x/x
Noun
acacia
x/x
Noun
accurate
/xx
Adjective
active
/x
Adjective, Noun
acutely
x/x
Adverb
advance
x/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
adversely
x/x
Adverb
affected
x/x
Adjective, Noun
after
/x
Adverb, Adjective, Noun
again
x/
Adverb
age
/
Noun, Verb
aggressively
x/xx
Adverb
airtime
/x
Noun
alcoholic
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
altitude
/xx
Noun
always
/x
Adverb
ambitious
x/x
Adjective
amount
x/
Noun, Verb
ankara
/xx
Name
anytime
/xx
Adverb, Adjective
appearance
x/x
Noun
approximate
x/xx
Adjective, Verb
ardently
/xx
Adverb
arduous
/xx
Adjective
arrival
x/x
Noun
assiduous
x/x
Adjective
avid
/x
Adjective
awful
/x
Adjective, Adverb
awkward
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
backbreaking
/xx
Adjective
bad
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
badass
/x
Noun, Adjective
badly
/x
Adverb, Adjective
baffling
/xx
Adjective, Noun
band
/
Noun, Verb
basis
/x
Noun
beat
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
beginning
x/x
Noun, Adjective
between
x/
Noun
big
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
binding
/x
Noun, Adjective
bit
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bitter
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
blunt
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
breath
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
brick
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
brutal
/x
Adjective
brute
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
bully
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bummer
/x
Noun
burdensome
/xx
Adjective
burnt
/
Adjective
busy
/x
Adjective, Verb, Noun
calculating
/xxx
Adjective
calculative
/xxx
Adjective
calendar
/xx
Noun, Verb
callous
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
carefully
/xx
Adverb
case
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
catchy
/x
Adjective
ceaselessly
/xx
Adverb
challenge
/x
Noun, Verb
chance
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
change
/
Noun, Verb
cheap
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
cheer
/
Noun, Verb
chronological
xx/xx
Adjective
chronology
x/xx
Noun
clerical
/xx
Adjective, Noun
clip
/
Noun, Verb
clock
/
Noun, Verb
closely
/x
Adverb
coarse
/
Adjective
coercive
x/x
Adjective
combination
xx/x
Noun
come
/
Verb, Noun
commitment
x/x
Noun
committed
x/x
Adjective
complex
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
complicated
/xxx
Adjective
compulsory
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
conclusive
x/x
Adjective
concrete
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
conjunction
x/x
Noun
connection
x/x
Noun
conniving
x/x
Adjective
conscientiously
xx/xx
Adverb
considerable
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
context
/x
Noun, Verb, Adjective
continuance
x/xx
Noun
continuum
x/xx
Noun
convertible
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
convincing
x/x
Adjective, Noun
correctional
x/xx
Adjective
costly
/x
Adjective
coup
/
Noun, Verb
course
/
Noun, Verb, Adverb
cruel
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
cumbersome
/xx
Adjective
current
/x
Adjective, Noun
damning
/x
Adjective, Noun
data
/x
Noun
date
/
Noun, Verb
daunting
/x
Adjective, Noun
daylight saving
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
daylight savings
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
deadline
/x
Noun, Verb
decade
x/
Noun
dedicated
/xxx
Adjective
delicate
/xx
Adjective, Noun
demanding
x/x
Adjective
desperately
/xxx
Adverb
difficile
/xx
Adjective
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
difficulties
/xxx
Noun
diligent
/xx
Adjective
dire
/
Adjective, Noun
disc
/
Noun, Verb
disk
/
Noun, Verb
distressing
x/x
Adjective
doggedly
/xx
Adverb
draconian
x/xx
Adjective
dry
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
dur
x
Noun, Adjective
dura
/x
Noun
duration
//x
Noun
duro
/x
Name
durum
/x
Noun
earnest
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
easiest
/xx
Adjective
easily
/xx
Adverb
effort
/x
Noun, Verb
effortful
/xx
Adjective
elusive
x/x
Adjective
embargo
x/x
Noun, Verb
embarrassing
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
end
/
Noun, Verb
endeavour
x/x
Noun, Verb
energetically
xx/xx
Adverb
enormous
x/x
Adjective
ephemera
x/xx
Noun
episode
/xx
Noun
epoch
/x
Noun, Verb
era
/x
Noun
erect
x/
Adjective, Verb
event
x/
Noun, Verb
evil
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
exacting
x/x
Adjective
excellent
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
expensive
x/x
Adjective
extensive
x/x
Adjective
extremely
x/x
Adverb
fact
/
Noun
factual
/xx
Adjective, Noun
far
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
fast
/
Adverb, Noun, Adjective, Verb
fermented
x/x
Adjective
ferocious
x/x
Adjective
fervently
/xx
Adverb
fierce
/
Adjective, Adverb
fine
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
firm
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb