| misfortune(noun, trouble, difficulty, depression, want) |
| paltriness(lack, unimportance, scarcity, scantiness, rareness) |
| penuriousness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, condition) |
| shortcoming(noun, weakness, condition, failure, want) |
| shortfall(noun, weakness, condition, failure, want) |
| sparsity(noun, lack, deficiency, shortage, scarcity) |
| starvation(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| sterility(noun, barrenness) |
| trial(noun, trouble, difficulty, depression, want) |
| underage(noun, weakness, condition, failure, excess) |
| undersupply |
| affliction(noun, depression, want, sadness, lack) |
| agony(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness) |
| aridity(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| beggarliness |
| blight(noun, adversity) |
| burden(noun, depression, sadness, gloom, unhappiness) |
| calamity(noun, trouble, difficulty, depression, want) |
| catastrophe(noun, trouble, difficulty, depression, want) |
| crunch(noun, trouble, difficulty, drag, hardship) |