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Meaning of HARDSCRABBLE

Pronunciation:  'hârd`skrabul

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
  2. [adj]  yielding little by great labor; "a hardscrabble farm"; "poor soil"
 
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 Synonyms: marginal, meager, meagerly, meagre, poor, unfruitful
 

 

 

 

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