| n. | 1. | 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. |
| 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" |