suffering
suffering is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Suffer. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- present participle. of Suffer
- noun. 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.
- adjective. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
- noun. feelings of mental or physical pain
- noun. psychological suffering
"the death of his wife caused him great distress"
- noun. a state of acute pain
- noun. misery resulting from affliction
- adjective. very unhappy; full of misery
"he felt depressed and miserable"
"a message of hope for suffering humanity"
- adjective. troubled by pain or loss
"suffering refugees"
Synonyms
hurt, distress, agony, excruciation, woe, miserable, wretched
Common word forms
suffer, sufferings, sufferingly
Words from these letters
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