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long-suffering

long-suffering adjective: having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.

Adjective

long-suffering (comparative more long-suffering or longer-suffering, superlative most long-suffering or longest-suffering)

  1. Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.
    • His long-suffering wife may have had to put up with him for many years, but she also benefited when times were good.
    • The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.1917, Bible (Jewish Publication Society), Exodus xxxiv. 6
    Synonyms:
    longanimous

Noun

long-suffering (uncountable)

  1. Long endurance or patience.

long-suffering meaning in Malayalam and Persian

long-suffering in Malayalam

tolerant, patient, forbearing
ദീർഘകാലമായി സഹിക്കുന്ന, നല്ല സഹനശക്തിയുള്ള, പ്രകോപനം ക്ഷമയോടെ സഹിക്കുന്ന, സഹിഷ്ണുവായ, സഹിക്കുന്ന, പൊറുക്കുന്ന

long-suffering in Persian

having endured discomfort
صبور sabur

Examples of long-suffering in a sentence

  • For long-suffering suburban passengers, 1970 represented a milestone as the beginning of the demise of the slam-door multiple unit.2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in RAIL, page 68:
  • The important thing, however, is that the long-suffering city is again reachable by rail.2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:

Synonyms of long-suffering

Forms of long-suffering

comparativemore long-suffering
comparativelonger-suffering
superlativemost long-suffering
superlativelongest-suffering

Questions about long-suffering

What does long-suffering mean?
Long-suffering means having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.
What is long-suffering in Malayalam?
Long-suffering in Malayalam is ദീർഘകാലമായി സഹിക്കുന്ന, നല്ല സഹനശക്തിയുള്ള, പ്രകോപനം ക്ഷമയോടെ സഹിക്കുന്ന. See Long-suffering meaning in Malayalam.
How do you use long-suffering in a sentence?
For long-suffering suburban passengers, 1970 represented a milestone as the beginning of the demise of the slam-door multiple unit.
What part of speech is long-suffering?
Long-suffering can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near long-suffering in the dictionary

  1. long-stop
  2. long-stopped
  3. long-stopping
  4. long-stops
  5. long-sufferance
  6. long-suffering
  7. long-sufferingness
  8. long-tail boat
  9. long-tail boats
  10. long-tail Covid
  11. long-tailed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: long-suffering (page history and authors); long-suffering (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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