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Antonyms for adversity
ædˈvɜr sɪ tiad·ver·si·ty

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 4 votes

  1. adversity

    Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

    Antonyms:
    blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

    Synonyms:
    affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.8 / 4 votes

  1. adversity

    Antonyms:
    good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement

    Synonyms:
    ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress, unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrow

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. adversity, hardship, hard knocksnoun

    a state of misfortune or affliction

    "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"

    Synonyms:
    rigor, rigourousness, severeness, hardship, severity, grimness, asperity, rigorousness, rigour, hard knocks

  2. adversitynoun

    a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event

    "a period marked by adversities"

    Synonyms:
    hard knocks, hardship

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. adversitynoun

    Synonyms:
    misfortune, buffeting, disaster, affliction, reverses, trouble

How to use adversity in a sentence?

  1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    Greatness is the flower of great adversity.

  2. Nikola Vucevic:

    Throughout this last month, we were able to fight through a lot of different adversity and it has kind of prepared us for the playoffs.

  3. Sir Thomas Browne:

    I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty into riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Achilles; fortune hath not one place to hit me.

  4. William A. Ward:

    Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

  5. Burton:

    Every man knows his own but not others? defects and miseries; and ?tis the nature of all men still to reflect upon themselves their own misfortunes, not to examine or consider other men?s, not to confer themselves with others; to recount their own miseries but not their good gifts, fortunes, benefits which they have, to ruminate on their adversity, but not once to think on their prosperity, not what they have but what they want.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1386success
#2835comfort
#2940relief
#4192pleasure
#4281joy
#7322happiness
#9500triumph
#9793advancement
#11641blessing
#12003prosperity
#23736boon
#27441consolation
#30603adversity
#35408gratification

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