Hardship and Work

Hardship

Hardship noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.

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Work and hardship are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a noun "Hardship".

Nearby Word: hard

Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.

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Hardship and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hardship" instead a noun "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

physical	physical hardship	physical work
particular	particular hardship	particular work
similar	similar hardship	similar work
true	true hardship	true work
Other adjectives: great, serious, new, early, major, recent.

You find yourself in hardship: out of work, business is bad, you owe for the rent, you owe for the rusty old car, you owe for utilities, etc.

Source: Good Fortune from God
He also opened a Patreon, after much deliberation, mostly due to hardship in finding quality work, and in how his YouTube partnerships were not paying him.

Source: Lets Play / Cr1TiKaL
Lots of Chinese publications decry that the fu er dai, unlike their parents, have all the lavish benefits of economic reform, but never had to work or suffer hardship for any of them.

Source: Nouveau Riche

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Work and Hardship. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hardship/work

Hardship & Work. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hardship/work>.

Work or Hardship. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hardship/work.

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