Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition of one who suffers; the bearing of pain or distress.
- n. An instance of pain or distress.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; also, pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred.
Wiktionary
- adj. Experiencing pain. syn.
- n. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
- v. present participle of suffer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred
- adj. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very unhappy; full of misery
- n. misery resulting from affliction
- n. feelings of mental or physical pain
- n. psychological suffering
- adj. troubled by pain or loss
- n. a state of acute pain
Examples
“He takes the case: '_A negro is a fellow-creature_: therefore, _A negro in suffering is a fellow-creature in suffering_.”
“But when we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a _dull neglected suffering_, but of _a wise and industrious suffering_, which draweth and contriveth _use and advantage out of that which seemeth adverse and contrary_, which is that properly which we call _accommodating_ or _applying_.”
“Are we yet again suffering from the vagaries of WordPress and its crappy handling of the comments?”
“This doesn't mean that I agree with their decisions, but one thing I can't in good conscience do is claim that they've been lax as UUs when they come to different conclusions or that they are ignoring suffering when they've concluded that what I label suffering and immorality is not suffering or immorality.”
“Governor Aycock lived nearly through his term suffering the inconvenience”
“Tax the rich, lets make Rush happy at all costs, his suffering is my pleasure. hahaha”
“The opposition leader says the campaign is intended to identify with what he calls the suffering of tens of thousands of Ugandans who cannot afford the high cost of transportation.”
Voice of America: Ugandan Opposition leader Vows to Lead Another 'Walk-to-Work' Campaign
“When I use the word "suffering" I know what I am talking about.”
The Huffington Post: Abigail E. Disney: A Commitment to Alzheimer's
“This, he opines, is much better than human rights commissions and tribunals which he describes as suffering from "blowback".”
“CHOPRA: But even though she's in extreme pain, you can see that she doesn't have that thing we call suffering, which is in the mind, which is unconsciousness because she has found a relationship with that mystery we call God and also she has the ability to give and receive love.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘suffering’.
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Romanticism
Words to describe art of the Romantic Era
contorted, confusing, rebellious, puzzling, passion, bizarre, tortured, bruisy, emotion, brooding, dark, fantasy and 91 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Emotions
affection, longing, cheerfulness, pride, optimism, relief, success, suprise, irritation, rage, hope, love and 31 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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hifi_del_norte's Words
vegetable, spatula, bang, fluctuate, carnage, simple, audio, hi-fi, empanada, bonnie, gazpacho, memoirs and 108 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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Eckhart Tolle distinctions
Words from Eckhart Tolle's book 'A new Earth', and various retreats and audio files
pain body, ego, mechanism, inner purpose, outer purpose, presence, attachment, identification, pain, suffering, consciousness, witnessing
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Poetrie: The Poems I Have Not Written
by John Brehm
I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems
I have not written would reach
from here to the California coast
if you laid them end to end.
And if ...describe, imagine, failed, sweep, divert, reproof, lingering, flutelike, interrogation, stately, intersecting, slick and 23 more...
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Black Saturday
A list in relation to the bushfires which commenced in earnest on Saturday 7 Feb 2009 in the state of Victoria, Australia.
marysville, ember attack, fire services, megafire, relief effort, emergency, cfa, brian naylor, kinglake, darkest day, last stand, hotline and 61 more...
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Children From Russia Spend Summer
Children From Russia Spend Summers in California
http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?f...spokesperson, weird, suffering, meltdown, contaminate, nuclear, disaster, radiation, power plant, nuclear power plant, fallout, spawn and 18 more...
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wizmical's Words
djed, stargate, sovereign, continuum, hyperspace, mindspace, raconteur, sully, demure, amuse-bouche, transmogrify, slather and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for suffering.
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