long-suffering

/'lɔɳ'sʌfəriɳ/

Thân thiện

A long-suffering teacher calmly helps a student for the third time.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Patiently enduring prolonged hardship or provocation: Describes a person or their disposition that bears continual difficulties, wrongs, or troubles without complaint or anger over a long period.

2. Noun:

   • Patient endurance of pain or unhappiness: The quality or act of tolerating suffering or adversity with patience and without resentment.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • She was a long-suffering employee who tolerated the chaotic management for years.
  • His long-suffering attitude helped him survive the difficult times.

• Noun:

  • Her long-suffering finally ended when she found a better job.
  • The story is a testament to human long-suffering and resilience.

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe a characteristic of a person, often implying a degree of virtue or stoicism in the face of persistent adversity.
  • The long-suffering fans remained loyal to the team despite decades of poor performance.

Variants and Related Words

• Long-sufferingly (adverb): In a long-suffering manner.
  • He sighed long-sufferingly as he explained the rule for the tenth time.

Synonyms

• Forbearing: Showing patience and tolerance.
• Patient: Able to accept or tolerate delays, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.
• Stoical: Enduring pain and hardship without showing feelings or complaining.
• Resigned: Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot change.

Antonyms

• Impatient: Having or showing a tendency to be quickly irritated or provoked.
• Intolerant: Not willing to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own.
• Complaining: Expressing dissatisfaction or annoyance about something.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• The patience of Job: An idiom referring to extreme patience and long-suffering, derived from the biblical figure.
  • It would take the patience of Job to deal with that customer's constant demands.

Học thuật

Noun

1. patient endurance of pain or unhappiness

Adjective

1. patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
   • an enduring disposition
   • a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife

Từ đồng nghĩa

• long-sufferance
• enduring