Definition of hardships

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• hardships is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 18
• hardships is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 18
• hardships is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 17

Definition of hardships

• a state of misfortune or affliction (noun)

  Examples

  1. a life of hardship

  Synonyms

  1. adversity
  2. hard knocks
• something hard to endure (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. asperity
  2. grimness
  3. rigor
  4. rigorousness
  5. rigour
  6. rigourousness
  7. severeness
  8. severity
• something that causes or entails suffering (noun)

  Examples

  1. I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women
  2. the many hardships of frontier life

See definition of hardships in Merriam Webster