Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tribulation

1 sense of tribulation

Sense 1
trial, tribulation, visitation -- (an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague")
       => affliction -- (a cause of great suffering and distress)