adversity

Roget-categorie 735

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.5. Results of voluntary action
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#735. Adversity

zelfstandig naamwoord

adversity, evil etc. 619 — failure etc. 732 — bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot — frowns of fortune — evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius^† — vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes — hard case, hard lines, hard life — sea of troubles — peck of troubles — hell upon earth — slough of despond.
trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.
pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint — hard times, bad times, sad times — rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind — visitation, infliction — affliction etc. (painfulness) 830 — bitter pill — care, trial — the sport of fortune.
mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune — disaster, calamity, catastrophe — accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub — backset^†, comedown, setback [U.S.].
losing game — falling etc. v. — fall, downfall — ruination, ruinousness — undoing — extremity — ruin etc. (destruction) 162.

werkwoord

be ill off etc. adj. — go hard with — fall on evil, fall on evil days — go on ill — not prosper etc. 734.
go downhill, go to rack and ruin etc. (destruction) 162, go to the dogs — fall, fall from one's high estate — decay, sink, decline, go down in the world — have seen better days — bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave — come to grief — be all over, be up with — bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

unfortunate, unblest^†, unhappy, unlucky — improsperous^†, unprosperous — hoodooed [U.S.] — luckless, hapless — out of luck — in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight — under a cloud — clouded — ill off, badly off — in adverse circumstances — poor etc. 804 — behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone — on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane — in one's utmost need.
planet-struck, devoted — born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth — ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.
adverse, untoward — disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.

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