hardship

noun. deprivation

noun. taking, keeping away; need

Word Origin & History

c.1200, "quality of being hard," from hard + -ship. Meaning "disadvantage, suffering, privation" is c.1400.

If you've only just got it, there'll be no hardship to you or to them if you give it up now!

If you can eat and sleep well, you can stand almost any hardship.

She loves him, and through poverty and hardship will share his fate.

He said he'd escaped from prison and, after a lot of difficulty and hardship, got back to England.

Before these were completed she succumbed to the hardship of her life.

Look at its pages, which evidence the hardship of the journey it has made.

We, too, shall have a home like that, as a reward for years of toil and hardship.

Their masters are not to jest with them, lest they should increase the hardship of their lot.

After all, the hardship of our lot is as nothing to that of the women yonder.

It was a wild wintry scene, pregnant with cold and hardship.