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

Derived forms: adversities

See also: adverse

Type of: bad luck, ill luck, misfortune, tough luck

Encyclopedia: Adversity

• dreary
• dreck
• Dred Scott
• dredge
• dredge up
• dredger
• dredging bucket
• dree
• dreg
• dregs
• dreidel
• dreidl
• Dreiser
• Dreissena
• Dreissena polymorpha
• drench
• drenched
• drenched in
• drenching
• Drepanididae
• Drepanis
• drepanocytic anaemia
• drepanocytic anemia
• Dresden
• dress