hardship

Other forms of hardship

plural

hardships·

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 hardship

What does hardship mean?

hardship means "a state of misfortune or affliction". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hardship?

hardship has 2 syllables: hard-ship. The stress falls on "hard". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹdʃɪp/.

What is another word for hardship?

Close synonyms include adversity, hard knocks, asperity, grimness, rigor. 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 hardship a common word?

hardship 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.