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1adversity — ► NOUN (pl. adversities) ▪ difficulty; misfortune …
2adversity — noun VERB + ADVERSITY ▪ be faced with, meet with ▪ When faced with adversity she was never tempted to give up. ▪ overcome, triumph over PREPOSITION ▪ …
3adversity — I noun adverse circumstances, adverse fortune, affliction, bale, calamitas, calamity, catastrophe, contretemps, difficulty, disaster, distress, hardship, injuriousness, injury, misadventure, mischance, miseria, misfortune, mishap, oppression,… …
4adversity — noun (U) a situation in which you have a lot of problems that seem to be caused by bad luck: to keep the family together in times of adversity …
5adversity — noun the studio made sure the public saw only the manufactured glamour and none of the real adversity of her private life Syn: misfortune, ill luck, bad luck, trouble, difficulty, hardship, distress, disaster, suffering, affliction, sorrow,… …
6adversity — noun (plural ties) Date: 13th century a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty or adverse fortune Synonyms: see misfortune …
7adversity — noun /ædˈvɜ(ɹ)s.ɪ.ti/ a) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity. b) An event that is adverse; calamity …
8adversity — noun (plural adversities) difficulty or misfortune …
9adversity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Ill fortune Nouns 1. (difficulty) adversity, affliction; bad, ill, adverse, or hard luck or fortune, Weltschmerz; evil lot; force majeur, frowns of fortune; evil star or genius; ups and downs of life,… …
10adversity — ad|ver|si|ty [ æd vɜrsəti ] noun count or uncount a difficult period in your life in which you have many problems: We struggled on in the face of adversity …
