n. | 1. | The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; |
a. | 1. | Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc. |
Noun | 1. | suffering - a state of acute pain Synonyms: excruciation, agony |
2. | suffering - misery resulting from affliction Synonyms: woe | |
3. | suffering - psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" | |
4. | suffering - feelings of mental or physical pain Synonyms: hurt | |
Adj. | 1. | suffering - troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees" |
2. | suffering - very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages" |