Related Words for suffering

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WordSyllablesCategories
wretched
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Adjective, Adjective
agony
/xx
Adjective, Noun
woe
/
Noun, Noun, Adjective
troubled
/x
Adjective, Adjective
sad
/
Adjective, Adjective, Verb, Noun
distress
x/
Noun, Noun, Verb
miserable
/xxx
Verb, Adjective, Noun
hurt
/
Noun, Verb, Noun, Adjective
unhappy
x/x
Adjective, Adjective, Noun, Verb
enjoy
x/
Noun, Verb
misery
/xx
Noun
pain
/
Noun
affliction
x/x
Noun
alleviating
x/xxx
Verb
enduring
x/x
Adjective
infliction
x/x
Noun
inflicting
x/x
Verb
experiencing
x/xxx
Verb
sorrow
/x
Noun
discomfort
x/x
Noun
afflicting
x/x
Noun
dying
/x
Verb
debilitating
x/xxx
Adjective
hardship
/x
Noun
indignity
x/xx
Noun
sufferers
/xx
Noun
heartache
/x
Noun
misfortune
x/x
Noun
torment
/x
Noun
crippling
/xx
Noun
humiliation
xxx/x
Noun
heartbreak
/x
Noun
sickness
/x
Noun
sufferance
/xx
Noun
trauma
/x
Noun
worsening
/xx
Verb
devastation
xx/x
Noun
aching
/x
Verb
chronic
/x
Adjective
severe
x/
Adjective
grief
/
Noun
excruciating
x/xxx
Adjective
illness
/x
Noun
aggravation
xx/x
Noun
grieving
/x
Verb
travails
x/
Noun
cause
/
Noun
succumbing
x/x
Verb
injustice
x/x
Noun
persecution
xx/x
Noun
ignominy
/xxx
Noun
death
/
Noun
overcoming
/xxx
Verb
relieving
x/x
Verb
ailment
/x
Noun
plight
/
Noun
starvation
x/x
Noun
exacerbating
x/xxx
Verb
predicament
x/xx
Noun
indifference
x/xx
Noun
relief
x/
Noun
agonizing
/xxx
Adjective
symptoms
/x
Noun
indigestion
xx/x
Noun
unendurable
xx/xx
Adjective
sympathy
/xx
Noun
calamity
x/xx
Noun
casualties
/xxx
Noun
starving
/x
Verb
struggle
/x
Noun
unremitting
xx/x
Adjective
hunger
/x
Noun
embarrassment
x/xx
Noun
perishing
/xx
Noun
headaches
/x
Noun
oppression
x/x
Noun
prolonged
x/
Adjective
illnesses
/xx
Noun
sleeplessness
/xx
Noun
unspeakable
x/xx
Adjective
loss
/
Noun
painful
/x
Adjective
sore
/
Adjective
sorrowful
/xx
Adjective
tender
/x
Noun
stabbing
/x
Noun
gloomy
/x
Adjective
stoical
/xx
Adjective
sharp
/
Adjective
penitent
/xx
Noun
poignant
/x
Adjective
smarting
/x
Verb
cramped
/
Adjective
itchy
/x
Adjective
tearful
/x
Adjective
laborious
x/xx
Adjective
sweaty
/x
Adjective
emotional
x/xx
Adjective
scratchy
/x
Adjective
pathetic
x/x
Adjective
profound
x/
Adjective
demanding
x/x
Verb
stinging
/x
Adjective
bittersweet
/xx
Noun
sickly
/x
Adjective
weighty
/x
Adjective
unmerited
x/xx
Adjective
undeserved
xx/
Adjective
untold
x/
Adjective
needless
/x
Adjective
privation
x/x
Noun
vicarious
x/xx
Adjective
redemptive
x/x
Adjective
inured
x/
Verb
avoidable
x/xx
Adjective
unrelieved
xx/
Adjective
unbearable
x/xx
Adjective
pointless
/x
Adjective
empathize
/xx
Verb
impermanence
x/xx
Noun
unimaginable
xx/xxx
Adjective
adversity
x/xx
Noun
affecting
x/x
Adjective
aggrieved
x/
Adjective
ailing
/x
Adjective, Noun
arrears
x/
Noun
backlog
/x
Noun, Verb
being
/x
Noun
bereaved
x/
Adjective
bitterness
/xx
Noun
bloodshed
/x
Noun
calvary
/xx
Name
catastrophe
x/xx
Noun
cliffs
/
Noun
condition
x/x
Noun, Verb
contented
x/x
Adjective
damage
/x
Noun, Verb
default
x/
Noun, Verb
deprivation
xx/x
Noun
destitution
/xxx
Noun
devoted
x/x
Adjective
disaster
x/x
Noun
dispossession
xx/x
Noun
disquiet
x/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
distraught
x/
Adjective
dolor
xx
Noun
doom
/
Noun, Verb
evils
/x
Noun
facing
/x
Adjective, Noun
frustration
x/x
Noun
hapless
/x
Adjective
harassed
x/
Adjective
harm
/
Noun, Verb
ill
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
inconvenience
xx/x
Noun, Verb
incurring
x/x
Noun
indulgent
x/x
Adjective
infirmity
x/xx
Noun
injury
/xx
Noun, Verb
irritation
xx/x
Noun
leader
/x
Noun
leading
/x
Adjective, Noun
living
/x
Noun, Adjective
loneliness
/xx
Noun
loving
/x
Adjective, Noun
martyr
/x
Noun, Verb
martyrdom
/xx
Noun
moral
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
morale
x/
Noun
mother
/x
Noun, Verb
motherland
/xx
Noun
ordeal
x/
Noun
outraged
/x
Noun
overwhelmed
xx/
Noun
passing
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
passion
/x
Noun, Verb
prey
/
Noun, Verb
punishment
/xx
Noun
result
x/
Noun, Verb
saga
/x
Noun
scourge
/
Noun, Verb
sick
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
situation
xx/x
Noun
squalor
/x
Noun
stricken
/x
Adjective
torture
/x
Noun, Verb
tragedy
/xx
Noun
tribulation
xx/x
Noun
undergoing
xx/x
Verb
unease
x/
Noun, Verb
victim
/x
Noun, Verb
worried
/x
Adjective
wronged
/
Verb
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
shirtless
/x
Adjective
fall
/
Verb, Noun