adversity

Other forms of adversity

plural

adversities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adversity

What does adversity mean?

adversity means "a state of misfortune or affliction". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adversity?

adversity has 4 syllables: ad-ver-si-ty. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ædˈvɝsɪˌti/.

What is another word for adversity?

Close synonyms include hardship, hard knocks. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adversity a common word?

adversity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adversity?

66 words rhyme with adversity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.