suffering

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   troubled by pain or loss

   suffering refugees

2. 2
   adj

   Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.

   Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon.

3. 3
   noun

   The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.

   "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

4. 4
   adj

   very unhappy

5. 5
   noun

   feelings of mental or physical pain

6. 6
   noun

   psychological suffering

7. 7
   noun

   a state of acute pain

8. 8
   noun

   misery resulting from affliction

Etymology

By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.