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 |
| INBADSHAPE | 6 % | 10 |
| TRAVAIL | 6 % | 7 |
| HURT | 4 % | 4 |
| INPAIN | 4 % | 6 |
| HARDSHIP | 4 % | 8 |
| DISTRESS | 2 % | 8 |
| DOLOR | 2 % | 5 |
| TORMENT | 2 % | 7 |
| AILING | 2 % | 6 |
| INDISTRESS | 2 % | 10 |
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 INBADSHAPE
More clues leading to the result TRAVAIL
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 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 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
More clues leading to the result AILING
- Feeling feverish
- Under the weather
- Looking peaked
- Unwell
- Not feeling well
- Suffering.
- Not well.
- Indisposed
- Not in the pink
- Bedridden, say