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adversity |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adversity \Ad*ver"si*ty\, n.; pl {Adversities}. [OE. adversite F. adversit['e], fr L. adversitas.] 1. Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. --Bacon. Syn: Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble; suffering; trial. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: adversity n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: {hardship}] 2: a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event: "a period marked by adversities"
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