Word that means suffering

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1. sufferingadjective

   Synonyms:
   pain, in

2. sufferingadjective

   Experiencing pain.

   Synonyms:
   in, pain

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. suffering

   Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.

   Synonyms:
   ache, agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, throe, torment, torture, twinge, wo(e)

   Antonyms:
   comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. agony, suffering, excruciationnoun

   a state of acute pain

   Synonyms:
   hurt, distress, woe, excruciation, torture, crucifixion, agony, torment

   Antonyms:
   happy, untroubled

2. suffering, woenoun

   misery resulting from affliction

   Synonyms:
   agony, woe, distress, hurt, woefulness, excruciation

   Antonyms:
   happy, untroubled

3. distress, hurt, sufferingnoun

   psychological suffering

   «the death of his wife caused him great distress»

   Synonyms:
   hurt, injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, trauma, agony, scathe, woe

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

4. suffering, hurtadjective

   feelings of mental or physical pain

   Synonyms:
   hurt, injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, agony, trauma, woe, scathe

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

5. sufferingadjective

   troubled by pain or loss

   «suffering refugees»

   Synonyms:
   wretched, miserable

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

6. miserable, suffering, wretchedadjective

   very unhappy; full of misery

   «he felt depressed and miserable»; «a message of hope for suffering humanity»; «wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages»

   Synonyms:
   low-down, pitiable, pathetic, piteous, abject, vile, misfortunate, poor, pitiful, hapless, slimy, miserable, unworthy, deplorable, scurvy, scummy, worthless, ugly, woeful, measly, wretched, paltry, execrable, despicable, low

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

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1. List of paraphrases for «suffering»:

   sufferings, pain, misery, plight, distress, hardship, agony, suffer, anguish, experiencing, grief, hardships

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1. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo:

   Our actions have been better than the statisticians believed. So, we can flatten the curve. We are flattening the curve, we have to maintain it, but the human cost here, the human toll, the suffering, is just incredible. It’s just incredible.

2. Chin Young:

   South Korean citizens in Wuhan are suffering… So we need to bring them in as soon as possible, right?

3. Seetha Gunasekera:

   The government has to provide solutions, there is too much hardship and suffering.

4. Senator Richard Blumenthal:

   If Congress waits until a messy and disruptive default has begun, the price of addressing the crisis — in both dollars and human suffering of our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico — will be immense and irreparable.

5. H.W. Mann:

   We create suffering by denying our own actual experience and embracing relative truth

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