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afflictive
[ uh-flik-tiv ]
adjective
- characterized by or causing pain, distress, or grief; distressing.
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Other Words From
- af·flictive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of afflictive1
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Example Sentences
What an afflictive and appalling spectacle did it present to her!
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"I do well to be angry, even unto death," is the usual style in which we greet the afflictive providence of God.
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With the calm and dignified fortitude of a Christian, philosopher and hero—he met the shafts of afflictive fate.
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The "afflictive birch, cursed by unlettered idle youth," has other uses than that which the quotation would seem likely to imply.
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They never have even a partial representation of ministers, except under the afflictive dispensations of Providence.
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