sufferings
SaySUF-er-ingz/ˈsʌfəɹɪŋz/
- 1Plural of suffering.
The memoir recounts the sufferings endured by refugees crossing the mountains.
His poems gave voice to the quiet sufferings of factory workers.
Note
A plural that only the noun can make. Suffering is also the present participle of suffer and an adjective (a suffering child), but neither of those takes an -s. Once it does, the word is a countable noun naming separate episodes or kinds of distress. The singular, used as a mass noun, names the state itself: relief from suffering, but the sufferings of the refugees.
sufferings is a form of suffering
suffering, noun: Pain or distress that someone endures, or the state of having to endure it. Full entry
- Forms
- sufferingsufferings plural
- Spelling
- suffering → sufferings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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