suffering - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

feelings of mental or physical pain

Synonyms

• hurt
• suffering

More generic

• pain
• painfulness

More specific

• agony
• discomfort
• irritation
• soreness
• throes
• torment
• torture

Noun

psychological suffering

Synonyms

• distress
• hurt
• suffering

More generic

• pain
• painfulness

More specific

• anguish
• self-torment
• self-torture
• torment
• torture
• tsoris
• wound

Noun

a state of acute pain

Synonyms

• agony
• excruciation
• suffering

More generic

• hurting
• pain

More specific

• Passion
• Passion of Christ
• throe

Noun

misery resulting from affliction

Synonyms

• suffering
• woe

More generic

• miserableness
• misery
• wretchedness

Adjective

very unhappy; full of misery

Synonyms

• miserable
• suffering
• wretched

Related

• unhappy

Adjective

troubled by pain or loss

Synonyms

• suffering

Related

• troubled

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