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- DictionaryHard·ship/ˈhärdˌSHip/
noun
- 1. severe suffering or privation: "intolerable levels of hardship"
The meaning of HARDSHIP is privation, suffering. How to use hardship in a sentence.
Hardship definition: a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression. See examples of HARDSHIP used in a sentence.
HARDSHIP definition: 1. (something that causes) difficult or unpleasant conditions of life, or an example of this: 2…. Learn more.
a condition that causes difficulty or suffering, for example, being without a job or enough money: financial/economic hardship The price of cooking gas increased five-fold, worsening the economic hardship. extreme / real / severe hardship.
If something is a hardship, it causes suffering or unpleasantness. After all the hardship you endured while training for the marathon, you really hope that you’ll do well — or at least finish! The word hard in hardship is a tip-off to its meaning: something that’s a hardship is hard.
Hardship is a situation in which your life is difficult or unpleasant, often because you do not have enough money. Many people are suffering economic hardship. One of the worst hardships is having so little time to spend with one's family.
a situation that is difficult and unpleasant because you do not have enough money, food, clothes, etc. economic/financial, etc. hardship. People suffered many hardships during that long winter. The two men endured great hardship during their trek across Antarctica.
