[n] feelings of mental or physical pain
[n] psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
[n] a state of acute pain
[n] misery resulting from affliction
[adj] very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
[adj] troubled by pain or loss; "suffering refugees"