Definition for Suffering:

• The bearing of physical or mental pain; the pain borne; loss or injury endured.

Synonyms for Suffering:

• adj.

  •consenting (adjective)
  • Permitting.
  •pitiful (adjective)
  • scurvy,
  • pitiable.
  •poor (adjective)
  • necessitous.
  •ruthful (adjective)
  • ruthful.

• n.

  •
  • crisis,
  • tragedy,
  • quagmire,
  • nightmare,
  • battle,
  • ordeal,
  • stress.
  •adversity (noun)
  • hard times.
  •distress (noun)
  • difficulty.
  •evil (noun)
  • Peccancy.
  •hell (noun)
  • living hell,
  • perdition.
  •pain (noun)
  • burn,
  • bite,
  • stab,
  • sore,
  • bruise,
  • malaise,
  • wrench,
  • painfulness,
  • cramp,
  • infliction,
  • earache,
  • stitch,
  • rack,
  • chafing,
  • Migraine,
  • inflammation,
  • throb,
  • crick.
  •pain, agony (noun)
  • misfortune,
  • martyrdom.
  •suffering (noun)
  • troubled,
  • unhappy,
  • woe,
  • wretched.
  •travail (noun)
  • travail.

• 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:

  •
  • self-denial.
  •
  • deep.
  •correction
  • punishment.

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.