1. (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction

• adversity
• hard knocks

2. (noun) something hard to endure

• asperity
• grimness
• rigor
• rigorousness
• rigour
• rigourousness
• severeness
• severity

1. (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction

• affliction
• catastrophe
• disaster
• distress
• extremity
• ill-being
• low-water mark
• nadir
• victimization

2. (noun) something hard to endure

• sternness

1. (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction

• bad luck
• ill luck
• misfortune
• tough luck

2. (noun) something hard to endure

• difficultness
• difficulty

3. (noun) something that causes or entails suffering

• bad luck
• misfortune

1. (noun) a state of misfortune or affliction

• adverse
• inauspicious
• untoward

2. (noun) something hard to endure

• grim
• inexorable
• relentless
• stern
• unappeasable
• unforgiving
• unrelenting
• severe
• terrible
• wicked