Adversity
Nouns
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adversity, evil etc. Evil
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failure etc. Failure
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bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot
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frowns of fortune
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evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius
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vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes
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hard case, hard lines, hard life
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sea of troubles
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peck of troubles
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hell upon earth
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slough of despond. trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure. pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint
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hard times, bad times, sad times
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rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind
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visitation, infliction
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affliction etc. (painfulness) [Capability of giving pain; cause or source of pain] Painfulness
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bitter pill
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care, trial
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the sport of fortune. mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune
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disaster, calamity, catastrophe
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accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub
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backset, comedown, setback [U.S.]. losing game
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falling etc. v.
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fall, downfall
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ruination, ruinousness
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undoing
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extremity
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ruin etc. (destruction) [Nonproduction.] Destruction.
Verbs
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be ill off etc. adj.
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go hard with
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fall on evil, fall on evil days
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go on ill
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not prosper etc. Prosperity. go downhill, go to rack and ruin etc. (destruction) [Nonproduction.] Destruction, go to the dogs
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fall, fall from one's high estate
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decay, sink, decline, go down in the world
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have seen better days
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bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave
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come to grief
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be all over, be up with
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bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
Adjectives
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unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky
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improsperous, unprosperous
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hoodooed [U.S.]
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luckless, hapless
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out of luck
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in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight
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under a cloud
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clouded
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ill off, badly off
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in adverse circumstances
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poor etc. Poverty
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behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone
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on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane
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in one's utmost need. planet-struck, devoted
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born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth
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ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened. adverse, untoward
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disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.