Englishhardship
noun
the world depression caused severe hardship:
privation, deprivation, destitution, poverty, austerity, penury, want, need, neediness, beggary, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, financial distress;
misfortune, distress, suffering, affliction, trouble, pain, misery, wretchedness, tribulation, adversity, disaster, ruin, ruination, calamity;
trials, trials and tribulations, dire straits;
informal hassle;
literary travails.
▷antonyms prosperity; ease.