Synonyms of the word

suffering

• adj. Experiencing pain.
• n. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
• v. present participle of suffer.

agony

• n. Violent contest or striving.
• n. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic…
• n. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
• n. The last struggle of life; death struggle.

distress

• n. (Cause of) discomfort.
• n. Serious danger.
• n. (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
• n. (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
• v. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
• v. (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
• v. To treat an object, such as an antique, to give it an appearance of age.

excruciation

• n. Some excruciating pain.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

hurting

• v. present participle of hurt.
• n. A sensation that hurts.

miserable

• adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
• adj. Wretched; worthless; mean.
• adj. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
• adj. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
• n. A miserable person; a wretch.

miserableness

• n. The property of being miserable.

misery

• n. great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
• n. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
• n. (extreme) poverty.
• n. (archaic) greed; avarice.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

painfulness

• n. The state or quality of being painful, of causing pain.
• n. The state or quality of being tedious, of requiring great care.

troubled

• adj. Anxious, worried, careworn.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of trouble.

unhappy

• adj. Not happy; sad.
• adj. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.
• n. An individual who is not happy.

woe

• n. grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
• n. A curse; a malediction.
• adj. (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful.

wretched

• adj. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;…
• adj. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
• adj. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
• v. Misspelling of retched.

wretchedness

• n. An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
• n. A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.