The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.(noun)
source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
troubled by pain or loss(adj.all)
Example: Suffering refugees.
source: wordnet30
very unhappy; full of misery(adj.all)
Example: A message of hope for suffering humanity.