suffering

  • 101long-suffering — adjective her long suffering parents Syn: patient, forbearing, tolerant, uncomplaining, stoic, stoical, resigned; easygoing, indulgent, charitable, accommodating, forgiving, understanding Ant: impatient, complaining …

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  • 102long-suffering — *patience, resignation, forbearance Analogous words: submissiveness, subduedness (see corresponding adjectives at TAME): meekness, humbleness or humility, lowliness (see corresponding adjectives at HUMBLE): *fortitude, grit: endurance, toleration …

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  • 103long-suffering — adj 1. longanimous, forbearing, suffering, patient, patient as Job; uncomplaining, stoical; lenient, indulgent, permissive, tolerant, condoning; magnanimous, forgiving, charitable, exorable, placable. n 2. longanimity, forbearance, sufferance,… …

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  • 104long-suffering — UK / US adjective patient, despite having problems or being badly treated over a long period of time his long suffering wife …

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  • 105pain and suffering — Term used to describe not only physical discomfort and distress but also mental and emotional trauma which are recoverable as elements of damage in torts. Recovery for pain and suffering is restricted by statute in certain states. See cap …

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  • 106long-suffering — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ bearing problems or provocation with patience …

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  • 107long-suffering — [lôŋ′suf′ər iŋ] adj. bearing injuries, insults, trouble, etc. patiently for a long time n. long and patient endurance of injuries, insults, trouble, etc.: also Archaic long sufferance long sufferingly adv …

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  • 108long-suffering — I noun patient endurance of pain or unhappiness • Syn: ↑long sufferance • Hypernyms: ↑endurance II adjective patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble an enduring disposition …

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  • 109The Justice of Suffering — This doom metal song from the Finnish Death Metal band, Swallow the Sun features the vocals of Jonas Renkse of Katatonia during the chorus …

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  • 110church suffering — Rom. Cath. Ch. the souls in purgatory. * * * …

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