All adversity synonyms

noun adversity

• bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
• disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
• crunch — If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
• misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
• mishap — an unfortunate accident.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
• hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• clutch — If you clutch at something or clutch something, you hold it tightly, usually because you are afraid or anxious.
• contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
• poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• drag — drag and drop
• jam — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
• bummer — If you say that something is a bummer, you mean that it is unpleasant or annoying.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• downer — Informal. a depressant or sedative drug, especially a barbiturate. a depressing experience, person, or situation.
• jinx — a person, thing, or influence supposed to bring bad luck.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• hurting — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• can of worms — a complicated problem
• kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
• pain in the neck — source of annoyance
• bad break — misfortune, period of bad luck
• on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
• danger — Danger is the possibility that someone may be harmed or killed.
• situation — manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.