Synonyms:
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- annoyance,
- blight,
- broken fortune,
- bummer,
- care,
- cross,
- curse,
- difficulty,
- distress,
- downer,
- embarrassment,
- genteel poverty,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hard pinch,
- hardcase,
- hardship,
- impecuniosity,
- impecuniousness,
- insolvency,
- irritation,
- light purse,
- narrow means,
- plight,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- rigor,
- sea of troubles,
- slender means,
- straitened circumstances,
- straits,
- stress,
- stress of life,
- tight squeeze,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- troubles,
- unprosperousness,
- vale of tears,
- vicissitude,
- voluntary poverty,
- vows of poverty