| squalor(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness) |
| tenuity(noun, poverty) |
| abjection(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| adversity(noun, trouble, difficulty, depression, sadness) |
| agony(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness) |
| anguish(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness) |
| aridity(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| asceticism(noun, poverty) |
| bad luck(noun, expression, trouble, difficulty, drag) |
| bare cupboard |
| bare subsistence |
| barrenness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| begging |
| bummer(noun, trouble, difficulty, drag, hardship) |
| calamity(noun, trouble, difficulty, depression, sadness) |
| can of worms(noun, expression, idiom, trouble, difficulty) |
| catastrophe(noun, trouble, difficulty, depression, sadness) |
| crunch(noun, trouble, difficulty, drag, hardship) |
| danger(noun, difficulty, misfortune, rigor) |
| debt(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |