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

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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.

   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

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

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1. adversity

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

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

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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

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1. • Misfortune

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1. adversitynoun

   Synonyms:
   misfortune, calamity, affliction, trouble, suffering, woe, disaster, distress, misery, ill-luck, bad luck, broken fortunes, hard life, frowns of fortune

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1. adversitynoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "adversity":

   ordeal, downturn, hardship

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1. Craig Challen:

   The times in your life where you do hard things, you look adversity in the eye and face it down; despite possibly fearness in a turmoil of fear would be the best times of your life. These things you look back on as the building blocks of your person that you ultimately become. ~Dr. Craig Challen

2. Freddie Kitchens:

   There has been adversity hit it seems like all year so these guys have answered the call of adversity, and I expect them to do the same moving forward, there will not be any excuses. We will have 11 out on the field, and those 11 will be expected to do their job.

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. Mike McCarthy:

   There's so much value in those moments, to get where we want to go, we need to thrive in those situations. Now we created some of it today, don't get me wrong, but there’s still benefit in adversity football.

5. Jonathan Collier:

   The characters are okay; they're well and good, the big thing, too, is I really hope it's a positive message that adversity can be overcome. Everyone has problems in their lives. These people have a problem every week, and a huge problem at the end. But they're together and they overcome it.