Suffering
1suffering — index adversity, discipline (punishment), distress (anguish), hardship, misfortune, pain, prostra …
2Suffering — Suf fer*ing, n. 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. Souls in sufferings tried. Keble. [1913 Webster] …
3Suffering — Suf fer*ing, a. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc. {Suf fer*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …
4suffering — patient enduring of hardship, mid 14c.; undergoing of punishment, affliction, etc., late 14c., from prp. of SUFFER (Cf. suffer) (v.) …
5suffering — *distress, misery, agony, dolor, passion Analogous words: affliction, tribulation, *trial, visitation: adversity, *misfortune: *sorrow, grief, anguish, woe, heartache, heartbreak …
6suffering — [n] pain, agony adversity, affliction, anguish, difficulty, discomfort, distress, dolor, hardship, martyrdom, misery, misfortune, ordeal, passion, torment, torture; concept 728 Ant. happiness, health, joy …
7suffering — [suf′ər iŋ, suf′riŋ] n. 1. the bearing or undergoing of pain, distress, or injury 2. something suffered; pain, distress, or injury SYN. DISTRESS …
8Suffering — This article is about suffering or pain in the broadest sense. For physical pain, see Pain. For other uses, see The Suffering. Tragic mask on the façade of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm Suffering, or pain in a broad sense,[1] is …
9SUFFERING — The presence of suffering in the world poses a problem for religion insofar as it seems to contradict the notion of an all powerful benevolent God. It would seem that if God were good, He would not want His creatures to suffer, and if, all… …
10suffering — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ enormous, great, immense, intense, massive, real, terrible, unbearable, unimaginable, untold ▪ …
