long-suffering

Questions about long-suffering

What does long-suffering mean?

long-suffering means "patient endurance of pain or unhappiness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in long-suffering?

long-suffering has 4 syllables and divides as long--suf-fe-ring under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for long-suffering?

Close synonyms include long-sufferance, enduring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is long-suffering a common word?

long-suffering is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.