suffering
/ˈsʌfəɹɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.
Example Sentences
- "Her last night was very suffering, the anodyne she took gave her no relief, and for the first time she lay till near noon."
- "My heart is full, but my body too suffering to go on."
- "I said that Miss Kinney opened the wound; I had not seen the burn then, myself; I was too ill and too suffering to rise up to see the whole surface of it; this was on Thursday morning, the morning after the operation, that I complained of such pain I must have something to relieve it, so she brought these strips of bandages and vaseline, and then she examined the wound, and without saying anything she took this brass pin and pricked it in several places;"
- "Just to hear them was very suffering ... It must have been so unbearable to have to yell like that."
- "I was listening her because she was telling me she was very suffering and that she was praying for her pains, for sinners, for poor, for ill people and for afflicted."
- ""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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Italic *ferō Latin ferō Latin suffero Latin sufferre Vulgar Latin *sufferīre Old French suffrirbor. Middle English suffren English suffer Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English suffering By surface analysis, suffer + -ing.