Word.ws English Dictionary

sufferfest

sufferfest noun: a workout or race in the arena of endurance sports that involves prolonged suffering on the part of all who participate.

Noun

sufferfest (plural sufferfests)

  1. A workout or race in the arena of endurance sports that involves prolonged suffering on the part of all who participate.
  2. (broadly) An activity in which all participants ache, agonize, ail, endure.
    • And if that happened, they were in for a year-long sufferfest.2012, Owen West, The Snake Eaters: An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq

Forms of sufferfest

pluralsufferfests
alternative formsuffer-fest

Origin of sufferfest

From suffer + -fest.

Questions about sufferfest

What does sufferfest mean?
Sufferfest means a workout or race in the arena of endurance sports that involves prolonged suffering on the part of all who participate.
What part of speech is sufferfest?
Sufferfest is a noun.
What is the plural of sufferfest?
The plural of sufferfest is sufferfests.

Words near sufferfest in the dictionary

  1. sufferedst
  2. sufferer
  3. sufferers
  4. sufferest
  5. suffereth
  6. sufferfest
  7. sufferfests
  8. sufferin'
  9. sufferin' succotash
  10. suffering
  11. suffering catfish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sufferfest (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sufferfest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sufferfest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.