What are some opposite words for suffering?
Antonyms for suffering
ˈsʌf ər ɪŋ, ˈsʌf rɪŋsuf·fer·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
suffering
Pain is the most general term of this group, including all the others; pain is a disturbing sensation from which nature revolts, resulting from some injurious external interference (as from a wound, a bruise, a harsh word, etc.), or from some lack of what one needs, craves, or cherishes (as, the pain of hunger or bereavement), or from some abnormal action of bodily or mental functions (as, the pains of disease, envy, or discontent). Suffering is one of the severer forms of pain. The prick of a needle causes pain, but we should scarcely speak of it as suffering. Distress is too strong a word for little hurts, too feeble for the intensest suffering, but commonly applied to some continuous or prolonged trouble or need; as, the distress of a shipwrecked crew, or of a destitute family. Ache is lingering pain, more or less severe; pang, a pain short, sharp, intense, and perhaps repeated. We speak of the pangs of hunger or of remorse. Throe is a violent and thrilling pain. Paroxysm applies to an alternately recurring and receding pain, which comes as it were in waves; the paroxysm is the rising of the wave. Torment and torture are intense and terrible sufferings. Agony and anguish express the utmost pain or suffering of body or mind. Agony of body is that with which the system struggles; anguish that by which it is crushed.
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comfort, delight, ease, enjoyment, peace, rapture, relief, solaceSynonyms:
ache, agony, anguish, distress, pain, pang, paroxysm, throe, torment, torture, twinge, wo(e)
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Princeton's WordNet
agony, suffering, excruciationnoun
a state of acute pain
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happy, untroubledSynonyms:
hurt, distress, woe, excruciation, torture, crucifixion, agony, tormentsuffering, woenoun
misery resulting from affliction
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happy, untroubledSynonyms:
agony, woe, distress, hurt, woefulness, excruciationdistress, hurt, sufferingnoun
psychological suffering
"the death of his wife caused him great distress"
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untroubled, happySynonyms:
hurt, injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, distraint, trauma, agony, scathe, woesuffering, hurtadjective
feelings of mental or physical pain
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untroubled, happySynonyms:
hurt, injury, distress, detriment, harm, excruciation, damage, agony, trauma, woe, scathesufferingadjective
troubled by pain or loss
"suffering refugees"
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untroubled, happymiserable, suffering, wretchedadjective
very unhappy; full of misery
"he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
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untroubled, happySynonyms:
low-down, pitiable, pathetic, piteous, abject, vile, misfortunate, poor, pitiful, hapless, slimy, miserable, unworthy, deplorable, scurvy, scummy, worthless, ugly, woeful, measly, wretched, paltry, execrable, despicable, low
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sufferingnoun
Synonyms:
distress, agony, misery, pain, discomfort, torture, sufferance
How to use suffering in a sentence?
So all of that nonsense and distraction, the denial about the election outcome, Kelly Loeffler need to be focused on containing the spread of this virus and rushing direct financial relief to ordinary Americans who are suffering.
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
Many farmers are losing patience with the president, and he has to rein in his EPA right now or there will be political consequences to that because of the economic damage we're suffering.
Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.
Obviously the children that go on to depression the more we can identify them well the more we are hopeful that we can get preventive treatments going. Not waiting for them to be suffering but helping them beforehand, so we want to learn both to identify early children who are at true risk, help them before they struggle and learn from those that are resilient what is different about them because that might be a hint about how to help the children that are not resilient.
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