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Synonyms for adversity
ædˈvɜr sɪ tiad·ver·si·ty
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, visitationAntonyms:
blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
adversity
Synonyms:
ill-luck, misfortune, misery, calamity, disaster, distress, unsuccess, failure, ruin, trouble, affliction, sorrowAntonyms:
good-luck, prosperity, happiness, success, advancement
Princeton's WordNet
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 knocksadversitynoun
a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event
"a period marked by adversities"
Synonyms:
hard knocks, hardship
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
adversitynoun
Synonyms:
misfortune, calamity, affliction, trouble, suffering, woe, disaster, distress, misery, ill-luck, bad luck, broken fortunes, hard life, frowns of fortune
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
adversitynoun
Synonyms:
misfortune, buffeting, disaster, affliction, reverses, trouble
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1452 | trial | |
#2278 | failure | |
#2540 | blow | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#3815 | reverse | |
#4134 | disaster | |
#4320 | ill | |
#5586 | stroke | |
#6159 | harm | |
#10009 | severity | |
#12669 | distress | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#15487 | misery | |
#15535 | disappointment | |
#15960 | visitation | |
#18786 | hardship | |
#25754 | bereavement | |
#28176 | downturn | |
#29653 | ordeal | |
#30603 | adversity | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#34052 | calamity | |
#36859 | tribulation | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#38903 | rigor | |
#43262 | mishap | |
#64493 | rigour | |
#81876 | misadventure | |
#82122 | chastisement | |
#194474 | chastening | |
#209122 | asperity | |
#246182 | mischance | |
#256029 | grimness |
How to use adversity in a sentence?
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.
I think the biggest reason for me after all these years of running ultramarathons and testing my body was really to, you know, find a new level of adventure, it's really experiencing things and having to deal with adversity and, you know, events that you never anticipated.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello)
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Translations for adversity
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- محنةArabic
- беда, несполукаBulgarian
- adversitatCatalan, Valencian
- modgangDanish
- Ungemach, WidrigkeitGerman
- αντιξοότητες, αντιξοότηταGreek
- malfeliĉoEsperanto
- adversidadSpanish
- ناملایماتPersian
- vastoinkäyminenFinnish
- adversité, malheurFrench
- aimhreasIrish
- ana-cothromScottish Gaelic
- विपत्तिHindi
- kesulitanIndonesian
- avversitàItalian
- מצוקהHebrew
- 逆境Japanese
- 역경Korean
- adversitasLatin
- tegenslag, tegenspoed, tegenval, rampDutch
- motgangNorwegian
- adversitateRomanian
- беда, бедствие, несчастье, неприятностьRussian
- biedaSlovak
- eländeSwedish
- பாதகமானTamil
- కష్టాలలోTelugu
- бідиUkrainian
- پریشانUrdu
- nghịch cảnhVietnamese
- ומגליקYiddish
- 逆境Chinese
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