afflicting

Speech parts

1. afflicting - Noun

2. afflicting - Adjective

3. afflicting - Verb

Meaning

of Afflict

Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

plague pester trying suffering trouble affecting burden damaging distress painful touching worry sad beset dreadful
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Antonyms

easy bright excellent gay encouraging beneficial
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Examples

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. Ambrose Bierce

ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. Ambrose Bierce

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. Diana, Princess of Wales

The crisis afflicting this country, along with other countries of the Western world, is a crisis of capitalism. It is a crisis of the dominant economic system that prevails in all those countries. Michael Foot

I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. Halford E. Luccock

I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution... But now we have them all. And that's a thing that cuts to the heart ... Golda Meir

Close letter words and terms

afflictedness afflictee afflicter afflictingly affliction afflictionless