Antonyms for suffering
ˈsʌf ər ɪŋ, ˈsʌf rɪŋsuf·fer·ing

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1. sufferingadjective

   Synonyms:
   pain, in

2. sufferingadjective

   Experiencing pain.

   Synonyms:
   in, pain

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. suffering

   Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.

   Antonyms:
   comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solace

   Synonyms:
   ache, agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, throe, torment, torture, twinge, wo(e)

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1. • Pain

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1. agony, suffering, excruciationnoun

   a state of acute pain

   Antonyms:
   happy, untroubled

   Synonyms:
   hurt, distress, woe, excruciation, torture, crucifixion, agony, torment

2. suffering, woenoun

   misery resulting from affliction

   Antonyms:
   happy, untroubled

   Synonyms:
   agony, woe, distress, hurt, woefulness, excruciation

3. distress, hurt, sufferingnoun

   psychological suffering

   "the death of his wife caused him great distress"

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

   Synonyms:
   hurt, injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, trauma, agony, scathe, woe

4. suffering, hurtadjective

   feelings of mental or physical pain

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

   Synonyms:
   hurt, injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, agony, trauma, woe, scathe

5. sufferingadjective

   troubled by pain or loss

   "suffering refugees"

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

   Synonyms:
   wretched, miserable

6. miserable, suffering, wretchedadjective

   very unhappy; full of misery

   "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, happy

   Synonyms:
   low-down, pitiable, pathetic, piteous, abject, vile, misfortunate, poor, pitiful, hapless, slimy, miserable, unworthy, deplorable, scurvy, scummy, worthless, ugly, woeful, measly, wretched, paltry, execrable, despicable, low

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1. sufferingnoun

   Synonyms:
   distress, agony, misery, pain, discomfort, torture, sufferance

How to use suffering in a sentence?

1. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

   People don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

2. Aidan White:

   Around the world media coverage is often politically led with journalists following an agenda dominated by loose language and talk of invasion and swarms, but at other moments the story is laced with humanity, empathy and a focus on the suffering of those involved.

3. Jimmy Carter:

   We deal with individual people in the smallest and most obscure and suffering villages in the desert and in the jungles of Africa, and we've had programs in 80 different countries on the Earth for the poorest and most destitute people in the world, and that has been, I'd say, far more gratifying personally because we actually interact with families and with people.

4. David Mepham:

   But I think it is deeply disturbing that The British government appears to be saying this week that it just wants to talk about trade, and The British government just wants to talk about investment, and moral issues and human rights concerns and people suffering at the hands of the Chinese state should be shunted to one side.

5. Brian Jennings:

   Ethanol producers, and the farmers supplying them corn, are suffering a proportional economic disaster.

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