The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ILL which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Suffering crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ILL | 23 % | 3 |
| AGONY | 19 % | 5 |
| WOE | 13 % | 3 |
| PAIN | 9 % | 4 |
| TRAVAIL | 6 % | 7 |
| INBADSHAPE | 6 % | 10 |
| HARDSHIP | 4 % | 8 |
| HURT | 4 % | 4 |
| INPAIN | 4 % | 6 |
| INDISTRESS | 2 % | 10 |
| DISTRESS | 2 % | 8 |
| DOLOR | 2 % | 5 |
| TORMENT | 2 % | 7 |
| AILING | 2 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Suffering
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- agony
- distress
- hurt
- troubled
- woe
- sad
- wretched
- miserable
- unhappy
- ordeal
- pain
- afflicting
Crossword Answer definitions
ILL noun- (often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
- Harm or injury.
- Evil; moral wrongfulness.
- A physical ailment; an illness.
- PCP, phencyclidine.
- Evil; wicked (of people).
- Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- (hip-hop slang) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way.
- Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.
- Unwise; not a good idea.
- Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ILL
- "__ Never Smile Again"
- Laid up
- Out of sorts
- Under the weather
- Feeling poorly
- Not healthy
- Not well
- Sick
- Ailing
- Hardly healthy
More clues leading to the result AGONY
- Anguish
- Intense distress
- Suffering
- "The__ and the Ecstasy"
- Extreme pain
- Torment
- Great suffering
- Intense suspense, say
- Extreme suffering
- Hell
More clues leading to the result WOE
- "__ is me!
- Hand-wringer's word
- Misfortune
- Deep distress
- Heartache
- Wednesday's child is full of it
- Grief
- Blue state?
- Misery
- Ailment
More clues leading to the result PAIN
- Agony
- Pesky kid
- Soreness
- Advil target
- "No ___, no gain"
- Pesky kid, e.g.
- Gain prerequisite
- Annoyance
- Obnoxious brat
- World of hurt
More clues leading to the result TRAVAIL
More clues leading to the result INBADSHAPE
More clues leading to the result HARDSHIP
- Frigid winter, to a pioneer
- Tough time
- Difficulty
- Suffering
- Common Dickensian situation.
- Cause of suffering.
- Rainy day concomitant.
- Privation
- What Alger boys endure
- Trouble
More clues leading to the result HURT
More clues leading to the result INPAIN
- Hurting
- Suffering
- Far from comfy
- Seeking relief, quite possibly
- " . . . draw thy breath ___": Hamlet
- Doubled over, maybe
- Needing aspirin, e.g.
- Needing ibuprofen, say
- Doubled over, perhaps
More clues leading to the result INDISTRESS
More clues leading to the result DISTRESS
- Suffering
- Trouble
- Uncomfortable feeling
- Damsel's dolor.
- Damsel's woe.
- Kind of signal.
- Misery
- State of danger
- State of adversity
- See 17-Across
More clues leading to the result DOLOR
- Sorrow
- Extreme sadness
- Extreme sorrow
- Grief
- Intense grief
- Painful grief
- Great sadness
- Sadness
- Tremendous grief
- Heartbreak
More clues leading to the result TORMENT
- Relentlessly attack
- Plague
- More than pester
- Vex
- Bedevil
- Pick on endlessly
- Harry
- Tease mercilessly
- Agony
- Annoy persistently