Related Words for hardscrabble

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meager
/x
Adjective, Adjective
poor
/
Adjective, Adjective
unfruitful
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
marginal
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Adjective, Adjective
meagre
/x
Adjective, Adjective
impoverished
x/x
Adjective
rural
/x
Adjective
ramshackle
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Adjective
backwoods
//
Noun
workaday
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Adjective
bucolic
x/x
Adjective
squalid
/x
Adjective
gritty
/x
Noun
genteel
x/
Adjective
grimy
/x
Adjective
urban
/x
Name
craggy
/x
Adjective
suburban
x/x
Adjective
rugged
/x
Adjective
bleak
/
Adjective
midwestern
x/x
Name
backwater
/xx
Noun
downtrodden
x/x
Noun
churlish
/x
Adjective
gruelling
/x
Adjective
difficile
/xx
Noun
hard
/
Adjective
rough
/
Adjective
barren
/x
Adjective
trying
/x
Verb
crusty
/x
Adjective
difficult
/xx
Adjective
dreary
/x
Adjective
shabby
/x
Adjective
crummy
/x
Noun
hard up
//
Phrase, Adjective, Verb
hungry
/x
Adjective
cumbersome
/xx
Adjective
sick
/
Adjective
strait
/
Noun
sour
/x
Adjective
gainful
/x
Noun
desolate
/xx
Adjective
scuffed
/
Adjective
scrubby
/x
Adjective
scraggly
/x
Adjective
inhospitable
x/xxx
Adjective
frustrating
/xx
Adjective
pathetic
x/x
Adjective
harrowing
/xx
Noun
seedy
/x
Adjective
harsh
/
Adjective
miserable
/xxx
Adjective
challenging
/xx
Adjective
scrub
/
Noun
execrable
x/xx
Adjective
futile
/x
Adjective
fruitless
/x
Adjective
unproductive
xx/x
Adjective
ungainly
x/x
Adjective
waste
/
Noun
arid
/x
Noun
recalcitrant
x/xx
Adjective
scrappy
/x
Adjective
dismal
/x
Adjective
testing
/x
Noun
barbarous
/xx
Adjective
grill
/
Noun
cramped
/
Adjective
forlorn
x/
Adjective
stiff
/
Adjective
painful
/x
Adjective
wretched
/x
Adjective
unenviable
x/xxx
Adjective
worn out
//
Phrase, Adjective
abject
/x
Adjective
peasant
/x
Noun
brutal
/x
Adjective
wasteful
/x
Adjective
dried out
//
Phrase, Adjective
messy
/x
Adjective
dumpy
/x
Adjective
coarse
/
Adjective
scant
/
Adjective
foul
/
Adjective
hopeless
/x
Adjective
lousy
/x
Adjective
tattered
/x
Adjective
silly
/x
Adjective
dystopian
//xx
Adjective
blighted
/x
Adjective
punishing
/xx
Verb
scruffy
/x
Adjective
deprived
x/
Verb
needy
/x
Adjective
cruel
/x
Adjective
farm
/
Noun
ranch
/
Noun
upbringing
/xx
Noun
farmer
/x
Noun
childhood
/x
Noun
beginnings
x/x
Noun
existence
x/x
Noun
neighborhood
/xx
Noun
hills
/
Noun
life
/
Noun
town
/
Noun
land
/
Noun
background
/x
Noun
country
/x
Noun
families
/xx
Noun
devastated
/xxx
Adjective
midland
/x
Name, Adjective
outback
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb
peopled
/x
Adjective
plagued
/
Adjective
populated
/xxx
Adjective
prosperous
/xx
Adjective
ravaged
/x
Adjective
ridden
/x
Adjective
thriving
/x
Adjective, Noun
urbanized
/xx
Noun
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
pidgin
/x
Noun
die
/
Verb, Noun
fall
/
Verb, Noun
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective