<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.</li><li>Synonyms: misfortune, suffering, affliction, trouble.</li><li>Antonyms: ease.</li><li>an instance or cause of this; something hard to bear, as a deprivation, lack of comfort, or constant toil or danger: They faced bravely the many hardships of frontier life.</li></ul>