Afflictive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Afflictive \Af*flic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. afflictif.]
     Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief;
     distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." --Pope.
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           Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain.


                                                    --Prior.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  afflictive
       adj : causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to
             him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: {painful},
              {sore}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "afflictive":
     aching, algetic, calamitous, dire, distasteful, distressing,
     galling, grievous, heartbreaking, hurtful, hurting, lamentable,
     painful, regrettable, sore, unfortunate, unpalatable, woeful