Related Words for hardship

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WordSyllablesCategories
asperity
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Noun
severity
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Noun, Noun
rigour
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Noun, Noun
rigor
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Noun, Noun
adversity
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Noun, Noun
heartache
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Noun
misery
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Noun
difficulties
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Noun
deprivations
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Noun
heartbreak
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Noun
strife
/
Noun
destitution
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Noun
privations
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Noun
calamity
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Noun
injustice
x/x
Noun
suffering
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Noun
anguish
/x
Noun
unfairness
x/x
Noun
humiliation
xxx/x
Noun
poverty
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Noun
inconvenience
xx/x
Noun
turmoil
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Noun
aggravation
xx/x
Noun
discomfort
x/x
Noun
upheaval
x/x
Noun
agony
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Noun
devastation
xx/x
Noun
unpleasantness
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Noun
distress
x/
Noun
misfortune
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Noun
loneliness
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Noun
discouragement
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Noun
ordeal
x/
Noun
pain
/
Noun
sorrow
/x
Noun
persecution
xx/x
Noun
affliction
x/x
Noun
indignity
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Noun
harshness
/x
Noun
wretchedness
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Noun
burden
/x
Noun
illness
/x
Noun
sickness
/x
Noun
grief
/
Noun
sadness
/x
Noun
starvation
x/x
Noun
relief
x/
Noun
troubles
/x
Noun
oppression
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Noun
unhappiness
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Noun
despair
x/
Noun
hopelessness
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Noun
crisis
/x
Noun
danger
/x
Noun
stress
/
Noun
embarrassment
x/xx
Noun
frustration
x/x
Noun
unbearable
x/xx
Adjective
uncertainty
x/xx
Noun
disappointment
xx/x
Noun
angst
/
Noun
bleakness
/x
Noun
tribulation
xx/x
Noun
disillusionment
xx/xx
Noun
unimaginable
xx/xxx
Adjective
enduring
x/x
Adjective, Verb
tragedy
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Noun
alleviation
xxx/x
Noun
struggle
/x
Noun
trauma
/x
Noun
cruelty
/x
Noun
dislocation
x//x
Noun
drudgery
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Noun
torment
/x
Noun
inequity
x/xx
Noun
setback
/x
Noun
unrest
x/
Noun
excruciating
x/xxx
Adjective
homesickness
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Noun
prejudice
/xx
Noun
conflict
/x
Noun
catastrophe
x/xx
Noun
penury
/xx
Noun
unavoidable
xx/xx
Adjective
financial
x/x
Adjective
fatigue
x/
Noun
disaster
x/x
Noun
homelessness
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Noun
exhaustion
x/x
Noun
hassles
/x
Noun
insurmountable
xx/xx
Adjective
anxiety
x/xx
Noun
prosperity
x/xx
Noun
discrimination
xxx/x
Noun
economic
xx/x
Noun
loss
/
Noun
challenges
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Noun
brutality
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Noun
depression
x/x
Noun
peril
/x
Noun
helplessness
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Noun
famine
/x
Noun
vexation
x/x
Noun
confusion
x/x
Noun
horrors
/x
Noun
downturn
/x
Noun
discontent
xx/
Noun
infliction
x/x
Noun
desperation
xx/x
Noun
sleeplessness
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Noun
hunger
/x
Noun
intolerable
x/xxx
Adjective
unendurable
xx/xx
Adjective
alienation
xxx/x
Noun
hardiness
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Noun
hardness
/x
Noun
toughness
/x
Noun
disease
x/
Noun
assay
/x
Noun
endurance
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Noun
quandary
/xx
Noun
predicament
x/xx
Noun
impossibility
xxx/xx
Noun
hazard
/x
Noun
strain
/
Noun
complication
xx/x
Noun
roughness
/x
Noun
stringency
/xx
Noun
sufferance
/xx
Noun
undue
x/
Adjective
toil
/
Noun
inured
x/
Verb
unjustifiable
xxx/xx
Adjective
untold
x/
Adjective
affluence
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Noun
anneal
x/
Noun, Verb
annoyance
x/x
Noun
cash
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
circumstantial
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
coercion
x/x
Noun
coercive
x/x
Adjective
complaint
x/
Noun
complexities
x/xx
Noun
compulsion
x/x
Noun
conditional
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
confronting
x/x
Adjective
constrained
x/
Adjective
constraint
x/
Noun
counterfactual
/x/xx
Adjective, Noun
damage
/x
Noun, Verb
dearth
/
Noun
deductible
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Adjective, Noun
detriment
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Noun, Verb
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
dilemma
x/x
Noun
duress
/x
Noun, Verb
emergency
x/xx
Noun
emption
/x
Noun
excessive
x/x
Adjective
extremity
x/xx
Noun
hard
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
harm
/
Noun, Verb
ill
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
incentive
x/x
Noun, Adjective
injury
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Noun, Verb
insecurity
xx/xx
Noun
labour
/x
Noun, Verb
lack
/
Noun, Verb
living
/x
Noun, Adjective
lurch
/
Noun, Verb
malaise
x/
Noun
nadir
/x
Noun, Verb
need
/
Verb, Noun
needy
/x
Adjective
nondiscrimination
xxxx/x
Noun
nondiscriminatory
/x/xxxx
Adjective
nontaxable
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Adjective, Noun
overcrowding
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Noun
painstaking
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Noun, Adjective
paucity
/xx
Noun
penalty
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Noun
pittance
/x
Noun
plight
/
Noun, Verb
precariousness
x/xxx
Noun
problem
/x
Noun, Adjective
promissory
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Adjective
protection
x/x
Noun
quagmire
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Noun, Verb
rata
/x
Noun
restraint
x/
Noun
retrenchment
x/x
Noun
reversionary
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
scarcity
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Noun
shortage
/x
Noun
situation
xx/x
Noun
squalor
/x
Noun
strenuous
/xx
Adjective
subjection
x/x
Noun
subordination
xxx/x
Noun
sum
/
Noun, Verb
test
/
Noun, Verb
travails
x/
Noun
unease
x/
Noun, Verb
die
/
Verb, Noun
fall
/
Verb, Noun
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb