suffering

Adjective

• very unhappy; full of misery
  • he felt depressed and miserable
    
  • a message of hope for suffering humanity
    
  • wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages
    

• troubled by pain or loss
  • suffering refugees
    

Noun

• feelings of mental or physical pain

• psychological suffering
  • the death of his wife caused him great distress
    

• misery resulting from affliction

• a state of acute pain

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  miserable , wretched , hurt , distress , woe , agony , excruciation