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Definitions of
'adversity'
1.
(noun)
adversity, hardship, hard knocks
a state of misfortune or affliction
"debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
2.
(noun)
adversity
a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event
"a period marked by adversities"
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