English-Thai Dictionary

adversity

N เคราะห์กรรม  ความทุกข์ร้อน  misfortune reverse trouble khro-kam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADVERSITY

n.An event, or series of events, which oppose success or desire; misfortune; calamity; affliction; distress; state of unhappiness. In the day of adversity, consider. Ecclesiastes 7:14.
Ye have rejected God, who saved you out of all you adversities. 1 Samuel 1 :19.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

adversity

ad ver si ty |adˈvərsitē ədˈvərsədi | ▶noun ( pl. adversities ) difficulties; misfortune: resilience in the face of adversity | she overcame many adversities. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French adversite, from Latin adversitas, from advertere ‘turn toward. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

adversity

ad |ver ¦sity |ədˈvəːsɪti | ▶noun ( pl. adversities ) [ mass noun ] a difficult or unpleasant situation: resilience in the face of adversity | [ count noun ] : she overcame many adversities. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French adversite, from Latin adversitas, from advertere ‘turn towards ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

adversity

adversity noun the studio made sure the public saw only the manufactured glamour and none of the real adversity of her private life: misfortune, ill luck, bad luck, trouble, difficulty, hardship, distress, disaster, suffering, affliction, sorrow, misery, tribulation, woe, pain, trauma; mishap, misadventure, accident, upset, reverse, setback, crisis, catastrophe, tragedy, calamity, trial, cross, burden, blow; hard times, trials and tribulations; informal ill wind.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

adversity

adversity noun they remain steadfast in the face of adversity | it helps to laugh about life's adversities: misfortune, ill luck, bad luck, trouble, difficulty, hardship, distress, disaster, misadventure, suffering, affliction, sorrow, misery, heartbreak, heartache, wretchedness, tribulation, woe, pain, trauma, torment, torture; mishap, stroke of ill luck, stroke of bad luck, accident, shock, upset, reverse, reversal, reversal of fortune, setback, crisis, catastrophe, tragedy, calamity, trial, cross, burden, blow, buffet, vicissitude; hard times, dire straits, trials and tribulations; informal hell, hell on earth, hassle, stress; literary dolour, travails. ANTONYMS good times.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

adversity

ad ver si ty /ædvə́ː r səti |əd- /名詞 複 -ties U C 逆境 ; 困難 ; 災難 .