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- Dictionarysuffering/ˈsʌf(ə)rɪŋ/
noun
- 1. the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship: "weapons that cause unnecessary suffering"
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Suffering is the state or experience of one that suffers, or pain or injury endured. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and related phrases of suffering from Merriam-Webster.
Suffering is physical or mental pain that a person or animal is feeling. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, synonyms, and translations in different languages.
Terminology. The word suffering is sometimes used in the narrow sense of physical pain, but more often it refers to psychological pain, or more often yet it refers to pain in the broad sense, i.e. to any unpleasant feeling, emotion or sensation. The word pain usually refers to physical pain, but it is also a common synonym of suffering.
Suffer means to experience physical or mental pain, or to experience or show the effects of something bad. Learn more about the meaning, usage, and synonyms of suffer with examples and translations.
the state of a person or thing that suffers. Synonyms: distress, pain, torture, torment, agony. Often sufferings. something suffered by a person or a group of people; pain: the sorrows and sufferings of our poorest citizens. suffering.
Suffering is the kind of pain you feel when you shatter your ankle and it's what you'll see all around you if you find yourself in the middle of a tornado or an earthquake. When you're suffering, you're not happy — in fact, you're quite miserable.
Suffering is serious pain which someone feels in their body or their mind. Learn the synonyms, pronunciation, collocations, and usage of suffering in British and American English with Collins Dictionary.
