Definition of Suffering

1. Adjective. Troubled by pain or loss. "Suffering refugees"

Similar to: Troubled

2. Noun. A state of acute pain.
Exact synonyms: Agony, Excruciation
Generic synonyms: Hurting, Pain
Specialized synonyms: Throe, Passion, Passion Of Christ
Derivative terms: Agonal, Agonise, Agonise, Agonist, Agonize, Excruciate, Excruciate, Suffer, Suffer

3. Adjective. Very unhappy; full of misery. "Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
Exact synonyms: Miserable, Wretched
Similar to: Unhappy
Derivative terms: Miserableness, Wretchedness

4. Noun. Misery resulting from affliction.
Exact synonyms: Woe
Generic synonyms: Miserableness, Misery, Wretchedness
Derivative terms: Suffer

5. Noun. Psychological suffering. "The death of his wife caused him great distress"
Exact synonyms: Distress, Hurt
Generic synonyms: Pain, Painfulness
Specialized synonyms: Anguish, Torment, Torture, Self-torment, Self-torture, Tsoris, Wound
Derivative terms: Distress, Hurt, Hurt, Suffer

6. Noun. Feelings of mental or physical pain.
Exact synonyms: Hurt
Generic synonyms: Pain, Painfulness
Specialized synonyms: Agony, Torment, Torture, Throes, Discomfort, Irritation, Soreness
Derivative terms: Hurt, Hurt, Suffer, Suffer

Definition of Suffering

1. n. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

2. a. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

Definition of Suffering

1. Adjective. Experiencing pain.(jump experiencing pain s) ¹

2. Noun. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of suffer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suffering

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffering

suffer fools gladly
sufferable
sufferableness
sufferably
sufferage
sufferance
sufferances
sufferation
sufferations
sufferaunce
suffered
sufferer
sufferers
sufferest
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suffering
suffering catfish
suffering cats
suffering succotash
sufferingly
sufferings
suffers
suffete
suffetes
suffice
suffice it to say
suffice to say
sufficed
sufficer
sufficers

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