Adversity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADVERSITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty or adverse fortune
• a difficult or unpleasant situation
• very difficult or hard circumstances
• Opposition; contrariety.
• a state of misfortune or affliction
• a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune (see adverse)

Words related to ADVERSITY

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How to use ADVERSITY in a sentence

• INDEX Abel, Abner, Absalom, Abstrastion, Abysay, Accusation, false, Adam, Adultery, Adversity, Advocates, AEgidius Romanus.
• Thanks to the lessons of adversity, the Dowager has been led to favor the cause of progress.
• She was worn out now, a tired, drab little woman, with no strength left to stand against adversity.
• The salutary influence of adversity, and the clear, noble, and commanding mind of Hannibal, effected political and financial reforms.
• Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.
• But the Negroes, accustomed to adversity, struggled on, endeavoring through schools and churches to embrace every opportunity to rise.
• I should have liked the whole army to have seen me as I stood with my head so proudly erect and my hand upon my heart proclaiming my devotion to the Emperor in his adversity.
• Life in prosperity, but death in adversity, is best to seek.
• The struggle against the advancing tide of adversity cannot be maintained.
• There is no calamity greater than worldly affairs, because they distress the heart in prosperity as well as in adversity.
• Enable us to Conduct ourselves with prudence in all transactions, to show courage in danger, patience in adversity, in prosperity an humble will.
• You are aware that I was faithful to the Emperor in his adversity, and that I refused to sell my sword and my honour to the Bourbons.
• No wonder they loved her, and thronged around her alike in prosperity and in adversity.
• The foreigners who profess to be our friends are waiting and hoping for adversity to come upon us, that they may profit by it.
• The Republican Party had been sobered a good deal by four years of adversity.
• According to a tradition transmitted from age to age, the prosperity or adversity of the year was dependent upon the splendour and fervour with which they were celebrated.
• And the people having deserted him, he had to fall like a wax idol melted by the heat of adversity.
• The governor was rich always afterward, while the judge struggled along with adversity and finally went away from the county poor as a church mouse.
• For good or evil, prosperity or adversity, we are bound up with him in the bundle of this all-pervading and mysterious life.
• Influences of prosperity and adversity on moral judgments.
• So broken was she by adversity, that she lacked the energy to resist him or even to desire to do so.
• Unhappy is he of whom we say, how lucky he is! Adversity is more easily resisted than prosperity.
• Charles, like the poet, was a performer on the German flute, and, to use his own words, found it in the hour of adversity his best friend.
• I should be ashamed to share your prosperity, as I have done, and not aid you, so far as lies in my power, in your adversity, and this is the only way in which I can assist you.
• For those friends have the name, not the reality, who are not friends in adversity.
• Even the Christian may need the rod of adversity to keep him mindful of his dependence on God, and prevent his resting on the creature for support.
• Furious in their adversity, tyrannical in their successes, a commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people, than to plan the operations of the campaign.
• Reared in this school of adversity the boy had a hard life.
• Lapham stood in the isolation to which adversity so often seems to bring men.
• It all seemed to the quiet girl, who sat ill-at-ease on the little three-legged stool, that this was not the way to meet adversity.
• He seemed greater in his adversity than in his magnificence.

Similar words containing ADVERS without suffix ity

adverse11 adverser12 adversary16 adversely16 adversest13 adversaria14 adversarial15 adversaries15 adversative18 adverseness15 adversities15 adversatives19 adversariness17 adversatively23 adversenesses17 animadversion19 animadversions20 adversarinesses19

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