suffering

Speech parts

1. suffering - Noun

2. suffering - Adjective

3. suffering - Verb

5. suffering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Suffer

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.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pain heartache trial injury torture distress grief sorrow hardship misery miserable ordeal torment agony anguish
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Antonyms

bliss felicity paradise health serenity security
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Hypernyms

pain misery hurting miserableness painfulness

Hyponyms

passion discomfort irritation agony anguish soreness

Related terms

sublation sublate

Phrases with the word

cause suffering to mental suffering suffering from acoustic hyperesthesia colonial suffering suffering from paranoia emotional suffering

Examples

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. Augustine of Hippo

Better bread with salt in peace and without sorrow than many expensive dishes in grief and suffering. John Chrysostom

The meaning of true friendship is that it doubles joy and divides suffering in half. Joseph Addison

Only through suffering and sorrow do we acquire the wisdom not found in books. Japanese Proverb

A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend. Rwandan Proverb

Suffering and patience, obedience and application, help the lowly born to honour. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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