long-suffering

Examples

• All

• The kindest, most long-suffering man that ever walked on two legs.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The reputation of Ben's wife is that of a classically long-suffering woman.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Therefore, the Lord your God is patient with you, long-suffering, and slow to anger.

  Blog text (24)

• Having no other trade to fall back on, how will he, back in Warsaw, support himself and his long-suffering wife?

  Fiction book (1995)

• To make matters worse for her long-suffering husband, she was quickly going deaf as a stone but refused to wear hearing aids.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Even Hank Steuben and his wife would share a placard explaining that they'd perfected their roles, one bitter and blustery, the other long-suffering and defeated.

  Fiction book (1993)

• By noon, the auditorium had filled with a crowd of about two hundred, mostly graduate students and professors from around the Midwest, along with Hans and Solveig, who sat together, and, two rows behind them, my long-suffering parents, flushed with pride.

  Fiction book (1997)

• After years of supporting her partner through tough times, she has become his long-suffering companion who never complains.

• The teachers remained long-suffering during the chaotic school year, always putting their students' needs first without frustrations.

• His long-suffering nature was evident as he patiently waited for the train that was running late, without showing any signs of anger.

Synonyms

E

enduring

vslong-suffering

4.5

Patient and able to bear long hard times without complaint

is written as a hyphenated compound and shares the same meaning

Antonyms

I

impatience

38 2.5

A feeling of being annoyed and restless when you have to wait

How Patient

stoic

20 7.0

long-suffering

4 6.2

tolerant

72 3.2

patient

343 1.9

impatient

97 2.8

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Etymology