Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hardship
IPA transcription: [h'ɑɹdʃɪp]
Pronunciations of hardship
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: adversity, hardship, hard_knocks
    Meaning: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
  • Synonyms: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
    Meaning: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
Usage examples
  • "That will not be such a hardship.
  • It was a thankless job at best, and full of hardship and danger.
  • But there was Archie's room, and Sir Hugh felt this to be a hardship.
  • He never seemed to sleep, ate the poorest morsels, or went without any food when provision failed; let no danger daunt him, no hardship wring complaint from him, but went on through the wild forest, led by guides invisible to them, till they began to hope that home was near.
  • The smell of the washed ground and vegetation made every breath a pleasure, and I found Calypso borealis, the first I had seen on this side of the continent, one of my darlings, worth any amount of hardship; and I saw one of my Douglas squirrels on the margin of a grassy pool.
  • The rapidity with which women are going into industry, the increasing hardship and poverty of the lower strata of society, the arousing of public conscience, have all operated to give force and volume to the demand for woman's right to control her own body that she may work out her own salvation.
  • The remainder, those who had lost no animals, wanted satisfaction for the trouble and hardship they had undergone while in pursuit of the thieves. Kit Carson and two others composed this latter party and thus were determined to punish the thieves, let the consequences of the attempt be ever so fatal.
  • After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George V, License CC BY-SA 4.0