Synonyms for Suffering:

• adj.

  •afflicted (adjective)
  • de pressed,
  • de-pressed,
  • more grieved,
  • most grieved.
  •all (adjective)
  • suffering.
  •anguishing (adjective)
  • more torturing,
  • most torturing,
  • torturing.
  •consenting (adjective)
  • Permitting.
  •hurt (adjective)
  • wounded,
  • dis tressed,
  • dis figured,
  • more lacerated,
  • un happy,
  • more grazed,
  • most mauled,
  • dis-figured,
  • more mauled,
  • most bleeding,
  • shooker,
  • more hit,
  • most grazed,
  • more disfigured,
  • more suffering,
  • most buffeted,
  • more bruised,
  • most lacerated,
  • warped,
  • most nicked,
  • most scarred,
  • more piqued,
  • more crushed,
  • more marred,
  • more buffeted,
  • most crushed,
  • most tortured,
  • more cut,
  • most battered,
  • more warped,
  • most suffering,
  • Mauled,
  • shookest,
  • more contused,
  • most shot,
  • more bleeding,
  • most bruised,
  • most scratched,
  • most scraped,
  • more scratched,
  • un happier,
  • dis-tressed,
  • most hit,
  • struck,
  • more tortured,
  • more scraped,
  • more agonized,
  • pained,
  • un-happy,
  • un happiest,
  • more shot,
  • most piqued,
  • more scarred,
  • more battered,
  • most cut,
  • most contused,
  • most warped,
  • most disfigured,
  • miffed,
  • most agonized,
  • more nicked,
  • most marred.
  •laid-up (adjective)
  • laidup.
  •miserable (adjective)
  • de-solate,
  • de stroyed,
  • de-stroyed,
  • most anguished,
  • on downer,
  • down the mouth,
  • most hurting,
  • more racked,
  • dis contented,
  • Racked,
  • de solate,
  • most racked,
  • most tormented,
  • more hurting,
  • down mouth,
  • most discontented,
  • dis-contented,
  • more tormented,
  • more anguished.
  •necessitous (adjective)
  • on one's uppers,
  • on uppers,
  • on one uppers,
  • on ones uppers.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • not so hot,
  • tormenting,
  • uncomfortable,
  • unwell,
  • poor,
  • poverty-stricken,
  • hospitalized,
  • afflicted,
  • in a bad way,
  • in poor health,
  • Unmoneyed,
  • pitiful,
  • on a downer,
  • down in mouth,
  • all torn up,
  • in firm,
  • in great need; financially poor,
  • contused,
  • laid-up,
  • broken down,
  • anguished,
  • sick as a dog,
  • miserable,
  • Qualmish,
  • sick,
  • impencunious,
  • miserably poor,
  • anguishing,
  • in pain,
  • busted up.
  •pitiful (adjective)
  • tearful,
  • pitiable,
  • scurvy.
  •poor (adjective)
  • in want,
  • empty-handed,
  • dirt poor,
  • Beggared,
  • down and out,
  • stone broke,
  • in need,
  • flat broke,
  • behind eight ball,
  • Fortuneless,
  • necessitous,
  • poorer,
  • moneyless,
  • truly needy,
  • unprosperous.
  •poverty-stricken (adjective)
  • more impencunious,
  • poverty stricken,
  • most unmoneyed,
  • down out,
  • needful,
  • un-moneyed,
  • povertystricken,
  • more unmoneyed,
  • in dire circumstances,
  • most impencunious,
  • un moneyed.
  •ruthful (adjective)
  • ruthful.
  •sick (adjective)
  • in bad way,
  • more declining,
  • sickest,
  • most qualmish,
  • un-healthy,
  • under medication,
  • dis ordered,
  • in disposed,
  • in firmest,
  • un healthiest,
  • un healthy,
  • dis-ordered,
  • in firmer,
  • sick as dog,
  • in valid,
  • more infected,
  • most infected,
  • most hospitalized,
  • under weather,
  • most declining,
  • more qualmish,
  • un-healthiest,
  • in-disposed,
  • more hospitalized,
  • in-valid,
  • dis-eased,
  • in curable,
  • un healthier,
  • in-curable,
  • dis eased,
  • in-firmest,
  • in-firmer.
  •tormenting (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • more tearing,
  • more struggling,
  • in tenser,
  • in tense,
  • most tearing,
  • most racking,
  • in-tensest,
  • in-tense,
  • more racking,
  • most struggling.
  •uncomfortable (adjective)
  • ill ease,
  • self conscious,
  • dis-composed,
  • dis-quieted,
  • more discomfited,
  • more discomposed,
  • most vexed,
  • un-easier,
  • most disquieted,
  • selfconscious,
  • un comfortable,
  • dis composed,
  • un easier,
  • most discomfited,
  • un-easiest,
  • most galled,
  • more wracked,
  • un-comfortable,
  • more chafed,
  • dis quieted,
  • most discomposed,
  • more disquieted,
  • most wracked,
  • more vexed,
  • more galled,
  • un easy,
  • most chafed,
  • un easiest.
  •unwell (adjective)
  • not feeling well.

• n.

  •
  • crisis,
  • worst-case scenario,
  • tragedy,
  • stress,
  • battle,
  • ordeal,
  • quagmire,
  • nightmare.
  •ache (noun)
  • throbbings,
  • smartings.
  •adversity (noun)
  • tough luck,
  • the worst,
  • ill fortune,
  • misfortunes,
  • hard times,
  • bad break,
  • on the skids.
  •affliction (noun)
  • dis eases,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis-order,
  • dis-eases,
  • dis ease,
  • dis orders,
  • dis-ease,
  • dis order.
  •anxiety (noun)
  • dis quiets,
  • fore-boding,
  • un certainties,
  • un easiness,
  • all overs,
  • un-easinesses,
  • mis-trust,
  • un-certainty,
  • dis-quiets,
  • un certainty,
  • dis-quietude,
  • nail-bitings,
  • un easinesses,
  • fretfulnesses,
  • un-certainties,
  • cold sweats,
  • fore bodings,
  • mis-giving,
  • ants pants,
  • mis-trusts,
  • allovers,
  • nail bitings,
  • worriments,
  • fore-bodings,
  • pins needles,
  • nailbitings,
  • un-easiness,
  • mis trusts,
  • nailbiting,
  • dis-quietudes,
  • mis giving,
  • dis quiet,
  • heebiejeebies,
  • dis quietude,
  • heebie jeebies,
  • Nail Biting,
  • dis quietudes,
  • mis trust,
  • dis-quiet,
  • fore boding.
  •cost (noun)
  • de privation,
  • de privations,
  • de-privation,
  • de-privations.
  •damage (noun)
  • mutilation,
  • cave-in,
  • cave in,
  • mutilations,
  • pollution,
  • cave-ins.
  •distress (noun)
  • study at distress,
  • difficulty.
  •endurance (noun)
  • re-solution,
  • sufferances,
  • sub-mission,
  • under going,
  • under-goings,
  • under goings,
  • re-solutions,
  • withstandings,
  • under-going,
  • continuings,
  • sub-missions,
  • sub mission,
  • with-standings,
  • with standings,
  • endurings,
  • sub missions,
  • re solutions,
  • with-standing,
  • undergoings,
  • holding ups,
  • with standing,
  • forebearances.
  •evil (noun)
  • sinfulness,
  • looseness,
  • diabolisms,
  • Knaveries,
  • diabolism,
  • criminalities,
  • knavery,
  • infamy,
  • vileness,
  • obscenity,
  • Peccancy,
  • criminality.
  •hardship (noun)
  • mis chance,
  • uphill battles,
  • tough breaks,
  • rotten lucks,
  • herculean tasks,
  • mis-chance,
  • mis-chances,
  • mis chances.
  •heartache (noun)
  • re morse,
  • re morses,
  • re-morses,
  • broken hearts,
  • re-morse.
  •heartbreak (noun)
  • heartsickness.
  •hell (noun)
  • perdition,
  • everlasting fire,
  • place of torment,
  • living hell,
  • infernal regions,
  • lower world,
  • underworld,
  • hell-fire,
  • infernal region,
  • hell fire.
  •hurt (noun)
  • dis-advantage,
  • dis advantage,
  • illtreatment,
  • ill treatment,
  • black and blues,
  • illtreatments,
  • black blues,
  • black blue,
  • dis-advantages,
  • dis advantages,
  • ill-treatments,
  • black and blue.
  •ill (noun)
  • un-pleasantnesses,
  • badnesses,
  • un pleasantness,
  • in-dispositions,
  • in dispositions,
  • un-pleasantness,
  • in disposition,
  • un pleasantnesses,
  • in-disposition.
  •injury (noun)
  • de-formation,
  • de formation,
  • in-justice,
  • in justices,
  • in-juries,
  • de-formations,
  • in-jury,
  • in dignity,
  • de formations,
  • in-dignity,
  • in dignities,
  • in jury,
  • in-dignities,
  • in juries.
  •injury, loss (noun)
  • damage(s).
  •life (noun)
  • way of life,
  • trials and tribulations,
  • hand one is dealt,
  • human condition.
  •living death (noun)
  • death life,
  • hell earth,
  • living-death.
  •living hell (noun)
  • living-hell,
  • tortures damned,
  • tortures of damned,
  • tortures the damned.
  •misery (noun)
  • anvil choru.
  •oppression (noun)
  • subjection,
  • Forcibleness,
  • severity,
  • iron hand,
  • Abusiveness,
  • tyrrany.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • booboos,
  • death in life,
  • injury,
  • cost,
  • vicissitude,
  • adversity,
  • expiation,
  • scar,
  • tortures of the damned,
  • torture,
  • heartache,
  • inclemency,
  • damage,
  • ache,
  • boo-boo,
  • persistence,
  • severe test,
  • anguish,
  • resistance,
  • hard time,
  • crucifixion,
  • tough break,
  • shrifts,
  • headache,
  • ill,
  • cross to bear,
  • passion,
  • hang up,
  • Inclemencies,
  • shrift,
  • purgatory,
  • misery,
  • visitation,
  • flare up,
  • sorrow,
  • Melancholias,
  • mistrust,
  • trial,
  • head ache,
  • infirmity,
  • badness,
  • conventionalisms,
  • Butterflies,
  • penance,
  • fretfulness,
  • punctiliousness,
  • submission,
  • endurance,
  • rotten luck,
  • traditionalism,
  • toleration,
  • dolor,
  • butterfly,
  • pain,
  • sufferance,
  • nail-biting,
  • booboo,
  • unease,
  • torment,
  • big trouble,
  • hangup,
  • wrath,
  • hell on earth,
  • trouble,
  • worriment,
  • living death,
  • ants in pants,
  • preciseness,
  • self-flagellation,
  • ill treatments,
  • excruciation,
  • tribulation,
  • poundings,
  • panic,
  • rigor,
  • weepings,
  • abjection,
  • trauma,
  • willies,
  • penalty,
  • affliction,
  • hard knock,
  • deformation,
  • sores,
  • starch,
  • cold sweat,
  • heavy heart,
  • broken heart,
  • boo-boos,
  • BADS,
  • calvary,
  • anxiety,
  • damnation,
  • Downs,
  • conventionalism,
  • unconsolability,
  • impalement,
  • anvil chorus,
  • Hell,
  • oppression,
  • wretchedness,
  • losses,
  • trying time,
  • life,
  • sackcloth and ashes,
  • Cruciation,
  • rue,
  • naggings,
  • evil,
  • submissions,
  • ill-treatment,
  • hardship,
  • deformations,
  • obduracy,
  • melancholia,
  • forebearance,
  • distress,
  • meticulousness,
  • uphill battle,
  • heartbreak,
  • Uncertainties.
  •pain (noun)
  • chafing,
  • burn,
  • cramp,
  • stab,
  • Back Ache,
  • infliction,
  • throb,
  • rack,
  • crick,
  • bite,
  • bruise,
  • wrench,
  • Migraine,
  • painfulness,
  • inflammation,
  • stitch,
  • earache,
  • sore,
  • malaise.
  •pain, agony (noun)
  • misfortune,
  • martyrdom.
  •passion (noun)
  • out break,
  • out-break,
  • out bursts,
  • in tensity,
  • flareup,
  • out-bursts,
  • out-breaks,
  • out breaks,
  • in-tensity,
  • out burst,
  • out-burst.
  •penance (noun)
  • self-flagellations,
  • expiations,
  • self flagellations,
  • self flagellation,
  • sackcloth ash,
  • selfflagellations,
  • sackcloth and ash,
  • selfflagellation,
  • sackcloth ashes.
  •perdition (noun)
  • loss of the soul.
  •punishment (noun)
  • what for,
  • rough treatment,
  • punitive measure,
  • disciplinary action,
  • gallows,
  • just desserts,
  • punitive measures.
  •rigor (noun)
  • in flexibilities,
  • in tolerances,
  • in clemency,
  • in-flexibilities,
  • in clemencies,
  • in-flexibility,
  • in-tolerances,
  • in-clemencies,
  • in-tolerance,
  • traditionalisms,
  • in tolerance,
  • in-clemency,
  • in flexibility.
  •sorrow (noun)
  • big troubles,
  • grievings,
  • lamentings.
  •suffering (noun)
  • troubled,
  • unhappy,
  • woe,
  • wretched.
  •torment (noun)
  • excruciations,
  • pro vocation,
  • pro vocations,
  • pro-vocations.
  •torture (noun)
  • impalements,
  • cruciations.
  •trauma (noun)
  • up set,
  • traumatization.
  •travail (noun)
  • travails,
  • travail.
  •trial (noun)
  • cross bear,
  • trying times,
  • in-conveniences,
  • in conveniences,
  • calvaries,
  • in-convenience,
  • severe tests.
  •tribulation (noun)
  • wrongings.
  •trouble (noun)
  • dis-contents,
  • dis content,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • un-rest,
  • dis-cord,
  • un rest,
  • dis-cords,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • dis cords,
  • dis contents,
  • dis cord,
  • un-rests,
  • dis-content.

• v.

  •abiding (verb)
  • persisting,
  • abiding,
  • Tarrying,
  • lasting,
  • Tolerating,
  • going on,
  • remaining,
  • Undergoing,
  • Experiencing,
  • lingering,
  • enduring,
  • bearing,
  • continuing,
  • putting up with,
  • persevering.
  •paining (verb)
  • stitching,
  • irritating,
  • Paining,
  • Afflicting,
  • distressing,
  • Cramping,
  • inflaming,
  • hurting,
  • wrenching,
  • racking,
  • Discomforting,
  • agonizing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • up against it.
  •
  • self-denial.
  •
  • deep.
  •correction
  • punishment.
  •Other relevant words:
  • emotion,
  • feel,
  • spasm,
  • sickness,
  • characteristic,
  • sensation,
  • grief,
  • quality,
  • attribute,
  • response,
  • agony,
  • sensitivity,
  • wound,
  • reaction,
  • malady,
  • throbbing,
  • hurt,
  • illness,
  • throe,
  • feature,
  • smarting,
  • irritation,
  • paroxysm,
  • pang,
  • stinging,
  • trait,
  • gripe,
  • aching,
  • laceration,
  • fever,
  • sense,
  • tenderness,
  • strain,
  • sting,
  • convulsion,
  • property,
  • soreness,
  • perception,
  • discomfort.
  •twisting
  • writhing.

Paraphrases for Suffering:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    suffer.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    Miseries, hardships.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    Agonies.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    torment.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Has, Experiencing.
  • Noun, plural
    ills, cliffs, evils, pains.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    prints, misfortune, hurt, destitution, bitterness, victim, wretchedness, passing, inconvenience, injury.
  • Verb, past tense
    faced, experienced, affected, struck.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    enduring, disadvantaged, hurting, resulting, supporting, Shouldering, Sustaining, registered, Registering, existing, losing, Encountering, deteriorating, Injuring, Receiving, facing, Residing, featuring, worsening, struggling, Harming, Reaping, causing, affecting, troubling, Bothering, Afflicting, torturing, Submitting, Presenting, Undergoing, Besetting, Withstanding, Infringing, acquiring, accusing, posing, Inflicting, Introducing, rising, disturbing, costs, bearing, S, damaging, experimenting, imposing, increasing, entering, identifying, Plaguing, Traversing, feeling, Realizing, confronting, mourning, complaining, sitting, improving, recording, serving, grappling, Treating, writing, Exhibiting, Patients, tampering, developing, contending, conducting, being, Carrying, coming, Witnessing, moving, Reeling, Violating, part, living, Outlining, raising, Pertaining, climbing, failing, crossing, coping, Amongst, boarding, turning, lying, seeing, becoming, guiding, sending, leading, bringing, contracting, Managing, hitting, touches, reaching, enabling, punishing, showing, remaining, Containing, completing, pending, Achieving, killing, find, Attaining, paying, Staying, know, knowing, running, Placing, ailing, calling, Harboring, putting, origin, demanding, happening, dealing, cases, Having, accounting, party, highly, taking, Allowing, going, trying, getting, meeting, too, Experiencing, passing, injury.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    suffers.
  • Noun, plural
    sorrows, afflictions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    misery, anguish, distress, hardship, plight, grief, agony, ordeal, sorrow, affliction, harm, disaster.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    incurring.

Antonyms for Suffering:

• n.

  • pain, agony
    blessing, relief, benefit, favor, advantage, good luck, health, contentment, happiness, joy, pleasure, ease, comfort.
  • Other antonyms:
    enjoyment, untroubled, rapture, happy, delight, peace, solace.