suffering privation

suffering privation
index poor (underprivileged)

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  • SUFFERING — The presence of suffering in the world poses a problem for religion insofar as it seems to contradict the notion of an all powerful benevolent God. It would seem that if God were good, He would not want His creatures to suffer, and if, all… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • privation — Synonyms and related words: abridgment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, bereavement, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, dearth, debit, default, defect, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • suffering — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. distress, misery, affliction; see difficulty 1 , 2 , pain 2 , distress . See Synonym Study at distress . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. pain, misery, agony, torture, torment, ache, distress, grief, depression, heartache,… …   English dictionary for students

  • privation — n deprivation, want, need, lack; loss, bereavement, hardship, distress, suffering; difficulty, predicament, plight, strait; seizure, confiscation, forfeiture, divestiture, disinheritance, dispossession; poverty, destitution, beggary, pauperism,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • hardship — I noun adversity, affliction, misfortune, suffering, travail II index adversity, burden, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, damage …   Law dictionary

  • poor — I (inferior in quality) adjective bad, badly made, barely passable, base, beggarly, below par, below standard, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, defective, deficient, dubious, faulty, flimsy, gimcrack, imperfect, inadequate, inartistic …   Law dictionary

  • difficulty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) That which is hard to overcome Nouns 1. difficulty, hardness, impracticability, hard work, uphill work, hurdle; hard task, Herculean task, large order, hard row to hoe; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor; …   English dictionary for students

  • hardship — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. adversity, difficulties; calamity, affliction. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Injury] Syn. misfortune, calamity, accident; see catastrophe , disaster . 2. [Burden] Syn. trial, sorrow, worry, difficulty; see… …   English dictionary for students

  • poor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. indigent (see poverty); inferior, faulty, unsatisfactory, imperfect, defective; humble; weak, flimsy. See insufficiency, imperfection, disease.Ant., rich, wealthy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking …   English dictionary for students

  • hardship — (n.) c.1200, quality of being hard, from HARD (Cf. hard) + SHIP (Cf. ship). Meaning disadvantage, suffering, privation is c.1400 …   Etymology dictionary

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