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100 Best Synonyms for “Suffering”

October 3, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. abuse cruel or violent treatment
2. ache continuous dull pain
3. adversity difficult or unlucky condition
4. affliction something causing pain or distress
5. agony extreme pain or torment
6. ailment illness causing pain
7. anguish intense mental or physical pain
8. anxiety nervous worry or distress
9. bane cause of great distress
10. bereavement grief after a death
11. bitterness resentful pain or sorrow
12. bondage state of oppressive captivity
13. burden heavy hardship or trouble
14. burn painful stinging sensation
15. calamity disastrous event causing misery
16. captivity state of being confined
17. catastrophe sudden disaster causing misery
18. cold painful lack of warmth
19. cramp painful muscle contraction
20. curse cause of continual misery
21. depression severe sadness or dejection
22. deprivation state of lacking essentials
23. desolation bleak misery or emptiness
24. despondency loss of hope and spirit
25. devastation great destruction or distress
26. discomfort slight pain or unease
27. dismay distress from fear or shock
28. distress severe pain, worry, or sorrow
29. enslavement state of forced bondage
30. exhaustion extreme tiredness or depletion
31. fatigue weariness from exertion or stress
32. forlornness pitiful loneliness or misery
33. frustration distress from blocked efforts
34. grief deep sorrow or pain
35. guilt painful sense of wrongdoing
36. harassment persistent troubling or tormenting
37. hardship severe difficulty or privation
38. harm physical or mental injury
39. heartache deep emotional pain
40. heartbreak overwhelming emotional sorrow
41. humiliation painful loss of dignity
42. hunger painful need for food
43. hurt physical or emotional pain
44. ignominy public shame or humiliation
45. ill-treatment cruel or abusive treatment
46. illness poor health or disease
47. infirmity physical weakness or ailment
48. inflammation painful bodily irritation
49. injury physical harm or damage
50. laceration deep emotional hurt
51. loss deprivation causing grief
52. malady disease or serious problem
53. maltreatment cruel or rough treatment
54. martyrdom extreme suffering for a cause
55. melancholy deep, lasting sadness
56. misery great unhappiness or distress
57. misfortune bad luck causing distress
58. mortification shame or self-denial pain
59. mourning grief over a loss
60. neuralgia intense nerve pain
61. oppression cruel or unjust hardship
62. ordeal painful or difficult experience
63. pain physical or emotional hurt
64. pang sudden sharp pain
65. penance self-imposed suffering or hardship
66. persecution cruel treatment causing distress
67. plague widespread affliction or trouble
68. poverty state of severe want
69. privation lack of basic necessities
70. punishment painful penalty or treatment
71. rawness painful soreness or exposure
72. remorse painful guilt or regret
73. ruin state of destruction or misery
74. ruination state of complete ruin
75. setback reversal causing hardship
76. shame painful feeling of disgrace
77. smart sharp stinging pain
78. soreness state of being painful
79. sorrow sadness caused by loss or pain
80. sting sharp pain or hurt
81. strain stress or pressure causing pain
82. stress mental or emotional pressure
83. throb pulsing pain
84. throes intense pain or struggle
85. torment severe physical or mental pain
86. torture extreme pain or anguish
87. trauma deeply distressing experience or injury
88. trial test involving hardship
89. tribulation great trouble or suffering
90. trouble distress or difficulty
91. twinge brief sharp pain
92. unease slight anxiety or discomfort
93. vexation annoyance or distress
94. victimization unfair treatment causing harm
95. want state of poverty or need
96. weariness tiredness of body or mind
97. woe great sorrow or distress
98. worry mental distress or concern
99. wretchedness state of deep misery
100. yoke burden of oppression or hardship
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