suffering

Meanings

Plural: sufferings

Noun

• a state of acute pain
• misery resulting from affliction
• psychological suffering
• feelings of mental or physical pain
• The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.

Verb

• undergo or be subjected to
• undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
• experience (emotional) pain
• put up with something or somebody unpleasant
• get worse
• feel pain or be in pain
• feel physical pain
• feel unwell or uncomfortable
  • "She is suffering from the hot weather"
• be given to
• undergo or suffer
• be set at a disadvantage
• present participle and gerund of suffer

Adjective Satellite

• troubled by pain or loss
  • "suffering refugees"
• very unhappy; full of misery
  • "a message of hope for suffering humanity"

Adj

• Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.

Synonyms

abide, ache, achesome, aching, achy, agony, bear, brook, digest, distress, endure, excruciation, get, griefful, have, hurt, hurty, in pain, lose, meet, miserable, pained, painfilled, painful, put up, raw, smartful, smarting, sore, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, suffering, support, sustain, tender, tolerate, tormented, woe, wretched

Antonyms

be well, enjoy

Related Words

sublate, sublation

Anagrams of suffering