adversity

adversity /əd'və:siti/
  • danh từ
    • sự bất hạnh; vận đen, vận rủi; cảnh nghịch, vận nghịch
    • tai hoạ, tai ương

Xem thêm: hardship, hard knocks



adversity

Từ điển Collocation

adversity noun

VERB + ADVERSITY be faced with, meet with When faced with adversity she was never tempted to give up. | overcome, triumph over

PREP. in ~ patience in adversity

PHRASES in the face of adversity courage in the face of adversity


Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • a state of misfortune or affliction; hardship, hard knocks

    debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity

    a life of hardship

  • a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event

    a period marked by adversities


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

adversities
syn.: affliction disaster distress grief hardship misfortune trouble

ant.: prosperity