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adverse circumstance synonyms

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  • batten
  • billet
  • boom
  • crossbar
  • crosspiece
  • ingot
  • lever
  • paling
  • pig
  • pole
  • rail
  • rib
  • rule
  • shaft
  • slab
  • spar
  • spoke
  • stake
  • stick
  • streak
  • strip
  • arrest
  • bar
  • barricade
  • block out
  • blockade
  • brake
  • catch
  • charge
  • check
  • choke
  • clog
  • close
  • close off
  • close out
  • congest
  • cut off
  • dam
  • deter
  • fill
  • halt
  • hang up
  • Herculean task
  • accountability
  • affliction
  • albatross
  • anxiety
  • ball and chain
  • blame
  • care
  • charge
  • clog
  • concern
  • deadweight
  • difficulty
  • duty
  • encumbrance
  • excess baggage
  • grievance
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • load
  • millstone
  • birthmark
  • blot
  • blotch
  • break
  • bug
  • catch
  • check
  • crack
  • deficiency
  • deformity
  • discoloration
  • drawback
  • error
  • failing
  • fault
  • flaw
  • foible
  • frailty
  • gap
  • glitch
  • gremlin
  • absence
  • bug
  • dearth
  • defalcation
  • default
  • defect
  • deficit
  • demerit
  • dereliction
  • failing
  • failure
  • fault
  • flaw
  • frailty
  • glitch
  • inability to hack it
  • insufficience
  • insufficiency
  • lack
  • loss
  • need
  • denial
  • deprival
  • destitution
  • detriment
  • disadvantage
  • dispossession
  • distress
  • divestiture
  • divestment
  • expropriation
  • hardship
  • loss
  • privation
  • removal
  • seizure
  • want
  • withdrawal
  • withholding
  • damage
  • disability
  • disservice
  • drawback
  • handicap
  • harm
  • hurt
  • impairment
  • injury
  • liability
  • loss
  • marring
  • mischief
  • prejudice
  • spoiling
  • affliction
  • ailment
  • defect
  • detriment
  • disqualification
  • drawback
  • impairment
  • inability
  • incapacity
  • incompetency
  • inexperience
  • infirmity
  • injury
  • invalidity
  • lack
  • unfitness
  • weakness
  • adverse circumstance
  • bar
  • blocking
  • burden
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deprivation
  • detriment
  • disability
  • drawback
  • failing
  • fault
  • flaw
  • fly in the ointment
  • hamper
  • handicap
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • impediment
  • imperfection
  • imposition
  • check
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • detriment
  • difficulty
  • disability
  • evil
  • failing
  • fault
  • flaw
  • fly in the ointment
  • handicap
  • hindrance
  • hitch
  • ill
  • impediment
  • imperfection
  • inconvenience
  • lack
  • nuisance
  • obstacle
  • declining
  • defeated
  • deficient
  • faint
  • feeble
  • inadequate
  • insufficient
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • short
  • shy
  • unavailing
  • unprosperous
  • unsuccessful
  • unsufficient
  • unthriving
  • vain
  • wanting
  • accountability
  • answerability
  • blunder
  • crime
  • culpability
  • defect
  • delinquency
  • dereliction
  • error
  • evil doing
  • failing
  • flaw
  • foible
  • frailty
  • guilt
  • impropriety
  • inaccuracy
  • indiscretion
  • infirmity
  • lapse
  • liability
  • Catch-22
  • blemish
  • bug
  • catch
  • defect
  • disfigurement
  • failing
  • fault
  • foible
  • glitch
  • gremlin
  • pitfall
  • slipup
  • speck
  • spot
  • stain
  • typo
  • vice
  • wart
  • weak spot
  • weakness
  • Catch-22
  • conundrum
  • deception
  • decoy
  • drawback
  • hitch
  • joke
  • puzzle
  • puzzler
  • snag
  • stumbling block
  • trap
  • bassinet
  • carton
  • crate
  • creel
  • laundry basket
  • pannier
  • affliction
  • baggage
  • barrier
  • block
  • burden
  • detriment
  • disability
  • drawback
  • encumbrance
  • hangup
  • hindrance
  • impairment
  • impediment
  • injury
  • limitation
  • load
  • millstone
  • obstacle
  • psychological baggage
  • restriction
  • shortcoming
  • Herculean task
  • accident
  • adversity
  • affliction
  • asperity
  • austerity
  • calamity
  • case
  • catastrophe
  • curse
  • danger
  • destitution
  • difficulty
  • disaster
  • discomfort
  • distress
  • drudgery
  • fatigue
  • grief
  • grievance
  • hard knocks
  • Catch-22
  • albatross
  • baggage
  • ball and chain
  • bar
  • barrier
  • catch
  • check
  • clog
  • crimp
  • cumbrance
  • deterrent
  • drag
  • drawback
  • encumbrance
  • excess baggage
  • foot dragging
  • glitch
  • gridlock
  • handicap
  • hang-up
  • Catch-22
  • bar
  • barricade
  • barrier
  • block
  • blockage
  • bottleneck
  • burden
  • catch
  • chain
  • check
  • clog
  • cramp
  • curb
  • dead weight
  • defect
  • delay
  • deterrent
  • detriment
  • difficulty
  • disadvantage
  • blemish
  • bug
  • catch
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deformity
  • demerit
  • disfigurement
  • failing
  • fallibility
  • fault
  • foible
  • frailty
  • glitch
  • gremlin
  • inadequacy
  • incompleteness
  • infirmity
  • insufficiency
  • peccadillo
  • problem
  • artifice
  • cheating
  • con
  • craftiness
  • dissimulation
  • fraud
  • hoax
  • hocus-pocus
  • hypocrisy
  • illusion
  • imposture
  • stratagem
  • trick
  • trickery
  • blemish
  • dearth
  • defalcation
  • defectiveness
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • drawback
  • failing
  • faultiness
  • flaw
  • imperfection
  • inadequateness
  • inaptness
  • incapacity
  • incompetence
  • incompetency
  • incompleteness
  • ineffectiveness
  • ineffectualness
  • inefficacy
  • inefficiency
  • aggravation
  • annoyance
  • awkwardness
  • bothersomeness
  • cumbersomeness
  • difficulty
  • disadvantage
  • disruption
  • disturbance
  • drawback
  • exasperation
  • fuss
  • hindrance
  • nuisance
  • pain
  • stew
  • trial
  • troublesomeness
  • uneasiness
  • unfitness
  • unhandiness
  • adverse circumstance
  • bar
  • blocking
  • burden
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deprivation
  • detriment
  • disability
  • discommodity
  • drawback
  • failing
  • fault
  • flaw
  • fly in the ointment
  • hamper
  • handicap
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • impediment
  • imperfection
  • abridgement
  • absence
  • curtailment
  • dearth
  • decrease
  • default
  • defect
  • deficit
  • depletion
  • deprivation
  • destitution
  • distress
  • exigency
  • exiguity
  • inadequacy
  • inferiority
  • insufficience
  • insufficiency
  • loss
  • meagerness
  • miss
  • accountability
  • accountableness
  • amenability
  • amenableness
  • arrearage
  • blame
  • burden
  • compulsion
  • culpability
  • debt
  • duty
  • indebtedness
  • obligation
  • onus
  • owing
  • subjection
  • susceptibility
  • bar
  • block
  • check
  • circumspection
  • condition
  • constraint
  • control
  • cramp
  • curb
  • definition
  • drawback
  • impediment
  • inhibition
  • injunction
  • modification
  • obstruction
  • qualification
  • reservation
  • restriction
  • snag
  • stint
  • deficient
  • less
  • negative
  • short of
  • smaller
  • subtracting
  • besetment
  • blister
  • bore
  • bother
  • botheration
  • botherment
  • bum
  • creep
  • drag
  • drip
  • exasperation
  • frump
  • gadfly
  • headache
  • inconvenience
  • infliction
  • insect
  • irritant
  • irritation
  • louse
  • nag
  • cavil
  • censure
  • challenge
  • counter-argument
  • criticism
  • declination
  • demur
  • demurral
  • demurring
  • difficulty
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • discontent
  • disesteem
  • disinclination
  • dislike
  • displeasure
  • dissatisfaction
  • doubt
  • exception
  • grievance
  • Catch-22
  • bar
  • block
  • booby trap
  • bump
  • catch
  • check
  • clog
  • crimp
  • difficulty
  • disincentive
  • encumbrance
  • hamper
  • handicap
  • hang-up
  • hardship
  • hindrance
  • hitch
  • hurdle
  • interference
  • interruption
  • destitution
  • disadvantage
  • hardship
  • indigence
  • lack
  • necessity
  • need
  • neediness
  • poverty
  • want
  • botheration
  • box
  • can of worms
  • complication
  • count
  • crunch
  • dilemma
  • disagreement
  • dispute
  • disputed point
  • doubt
  • headache
  • hitch
  • hot water
  • issue
  • mess
  • obstacle
  • pickle
  • point at issue
  • predicament
  • quandary
  • abstemiousness
  • abstinence
  • caution
  • coercion
  • command
  • compulsion
  • confines
  • constraint
  • control
  • coolness
  • curtailment
  • economy
  • forbearance
  • grip
  • hindrance
  • hold
  • inhibition
  • limitation
  • moderation
  • prevention
  • repression
  • Catch-22
  • bar
  • barrier
  • blockade
  • brake
  • bug
  • catch
  • clog
  • crimp
  • cropper
  • crunch
  • curb
  • difficulty
  • disadvantage
  • drag
  • drawback
  • fix
  • glitch
  • hamper
  • hitch
  • holdup
  • Catch-22
  • barricade
  • barrier
  • blockage
  • catch
  • clog
  • complication
  • delay
  • deterrent
  • difficulty
  • discouragement
  • drag
  • drawback
  • fly in the ointment
  • handicap
  • hindrance
  • hitch
  • holdup
  • hurdle
  • impediment
  • limitation
  • Achilles heel
  • appetite
  • blemish
  • chink in armor
  • debility
  • decrepitude
  • deficiency
  • delicacy
  • enervation
  • failing
  • faintness
  • fault
  • feebleness
  • flaw
  • foible
  • fondness
  • fragility
  • frailty
  • gap
  • impairment
  • imperfection
  • Achilles heel
  • appetite
  • blemish
  • chink in armor
  • debility
  • decrepitude
  • deficiency
  • delicacy
  • enervation
  • failing
  • faintness
  • fault
  • feebleness
  • flaw
  • fondness
  • fragility
  • frailty
  • gap
  • impairment
  • imperfection
  • impotence

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