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Synonyms for long-suffering

  • noun
  • adjective

Most common

patience forbearance sufferance

All synonyms

Noun

patience, forbearance, sufferance, long-sufferance, resignation

Adjective

patient, forbearing, enduring, passive, longanimous rare

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Long endurance or patience.

  2. adj. 1

    Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.

    The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

Related words

Other spellings
longsuffering

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Long-Suffering, Forbearance or Patience?

As regards our relations to our fellow men, forbearance is abstaining from retaliation or revenge; patience is keeping kindliness of heart under vexatious conduct; long-suffering is continued patience.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • patience A man without patience is like a lamp without oil.
  • forbearance Do not mistake patience for forbearance.
  • sufferance Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

By length

7 letters
patient2, passive2
8 letters
patience2, enduring3
10 letters
sufferance, forbearing
11 letters
resignation4, forbearance3, longanimous

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (patient2 = 2 syllables).