different between hardship vs disaster
hardship
English
Etymology
From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard +? -ship.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??d???p/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??d???p/
- Hyphenation: hard?ship
Noun
hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)
- Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
Antonyms
- softship
Translations
Verb
hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)
- (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
- 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
- […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]
- 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
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disaster
English
Alternative forms
- disastre (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French desastre, from Italian disastro, from dis- + astro (“star”), from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (ástron, “star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?st?r.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /d??zæs.t?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??z??s.t?(?)/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /d??zæs.t?/
- Rhymes: -??st?(?), -æst?(?)
Noun
disaster (countable and uncountable, plural disasters)
- An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
- An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
- 2003, The Devil Wears Prada
- A nod means good, two nods; very good. And then there's the pursing of the lips: disaster.
- 2003, The Devil Wears Prada
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:disaster
Derived terms
- natural disaster
Translations
Anagrams
- TARDISes, Tardises, diasters, disastre, disrates, restiads, tardises
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