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Suffering

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Similar meaning 4

Troubled 84% connected

of Trouble

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Troubled 84% connected

of Trouble

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Unhappy 84% connected

Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unhappy 84% connected

Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Narrower term 11

Agony 76% connected

Violent contest or striving.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Anguish 76% connected

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discomfort 76% connected

To discourage; to deject.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Irritation 76% connected

The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Passion 76% connected

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Self-torture 76% connected

The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.

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Soreness 76% connected

The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Throe 76% connected

Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Torment 76% connected

An engine for casting stones.

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Torture 76% connected

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Broader term 5

Hurting 76% connected

of Hurt

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Miserableness 76% connected

The state or quality of being miserable.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Misery 76% connected

Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

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Pain 76% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Wretchedness 76% connected

The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.

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Derivationally related 8

Anguish 74% connected

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Anguish 74% connected

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hurt 74% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hurt 74% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Torment 74% connected

An engine for casting stones.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Torment 74% connected

An engine for casting stones.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Torture 74% connected

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Torture 74% connected

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 7

Agony 92% connected

Violent contest or striving.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Distress 92% connected

Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Excruciation 92% connected

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hurt 92% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Miserable 92% connected

Very unhappy; wretched.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Woe 92% connected

Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wretched 92% connected

Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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