Earning a bare subsistence, as on the land; marginal: the sharecropper's hardscrabble life.
n.Barren or marginal farmland.
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Obscure Words:
hardscrabble
1) being or relating to a piece of barren or barely arable soil
2) marked by poverty
WordNet:
hardscrabble
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The adjective has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
yielding little by great labor
Synonym: poor
Meaning #2:
of a bare living gained by great labor
Synonym: marginal
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| Obscure Words. © 2008 by Michael A. Fischer http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd. Read more |
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| WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Read more |
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