suffering vs hurting
hurting vs sufferingsuffering and hurting both are nouns.
suffering is an adjective but hurting is not an adjective.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| suffering | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| hurting | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
hurting is a hypernym of
suffering; that is, hurting is a
word with a broader meaning than suffering:
- suffering: a state of acute pain
- hurting: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
Other hypernyms of suffering include
pain.
| suffering (noun) | hurting (noun) |
|---|---|
| feelings of mental or physical pain | a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder |
| psychological suffering | |
| a state of acute pain | |
| misery resulting from affliction |
| suffering (adjective) | hurting (adjective) |
|---|---|
| troubled by pain or loss | |
| very unhappy; full of misery |
Words related to "suffering"
Words related to "hurting"
- ache
- aching
- agony
- arthralgia
- burn
- burning
- causalgia
- chest pain
- chiralgia
- colic
- costalgia
- distress
- dysmenorrhea
- excruciation
- glossalgia
- glossodynia
- gripes
- griping
- growing pains
- hurt
- intestinal colic
- keratalgia
- labor pain
- mastalgia
- melagra
- meralgia
- metralgia
- myalgia
- myodynia
- nephralgia
- neuralgia
- neuralgy
- odynophagia
- orchidalgia
- pain
- pang
- photalgia
- photophobia
- pleuralgia
- pleurodynia
- podalgia
- proctalgia
- rawness
- referred pain
- renal colic
- smart
- smarting
- smartness
- soreness
- sting
- stinging
- stitch
- suffering
- symptom
- tenderness
- thermalgesia
- throb
- torment
- torture
- ulalgia
- urodynia
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