Category:Adversity

Ad*ver"si*ty, n.; pl. Adversities(#). Etym: [OE. adversite, F. adversité, fr. L. adversitas.]

1. Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

Syn.

-- Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble; suffering; trial.