Afflictive

Quick meaning: Afflictive is an adjective meaning That causes physical or mental pain.

Meaning

That causes physical or mental pain.

Example Sentences

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear: Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.

[…] in the days and weeks that passed, in absentia—or perhaps from a distance—he’d gradually filled my life, our lives, with his afflictive presence.

But the euil of the paine or the punishment of sin, or any kynde of afflictiue aduersitie, is not (in it self) absolutely euil, or simply to be fled from or auoyded.

Synonyms for afflictive

Depending on context, synonyms include sore, painful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include painful, sore, poignant, crippling, punishing, destructive.

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