n., pl. -ties.

1. A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune.
2. A calamitous event.

noun

Bad fortune: haplessness, misfortune, unfortunateness, unluckiness, untowardness. See luck/misfortune/chance.

n

Definition: bad luck, situation
Antonyms: aid, encouragement, favor, fortune, good luck, help, prosperity

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Quotes:

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together." - Carl Zwanzig

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." - Zig Ziglar

"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph." - Virginia Woolf

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it." - Oprah Winfrey

"It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end." - Bert Whitney

See more famous quotes about Adversity

Dansk (Danish)
n. - modgang, genvordigheder

Nederlands (Dutch)
tegenslag

Français (French)
n. - adversité, malheur

Deutsch (German)
n. - Not, Widrigkeit, Unglück

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αντιξοότητα, αναποδιά

Italiano (Italian)
avversità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - adversidade (f), desgraça (f), infelicidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
несчастье, невезение

Español (Spanish)
n. - adversidad, infortunio, desgracia, calamidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - motgång, elände

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
逆境, 窘境, 厄运, 灾祸, 不幸

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 逆境, 窘境, 厄運, 災禍, 不幸

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 역경, 불운

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 逆境, 災難

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حظ عاثر, محنه, شده‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מצוקה, צרה, מזל רע‬

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