afflictive
[ uh-flik-tiv ]
adjective
characterized by or causing pain, distress, or grief; distressing.
Origin of afflictive
1Other words from afflictive
- af·flic·tive·ly, adverb
Words Nearby afflictive
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How to use afflictive in a sentence
What an afflictive and appalling spectacle did it present to her!
Hildebrand | Anonymous"I do well to be angry, even unto death," is the usual style in which we greet the afflictive providence of God.
With the calm and dignified fortitude of a Christian, philosopher and hero—he met the shafts of afflictive fate.
Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution | L. Carroll JudsonThe "afflictive birch, cursed by unlettered idle youth," has other uses than that which the quotation would seem likely to imply.
Poachers and Poaching | John WatsonThey never have even a partial representation of ministers, except under the afflictive dispensations of Providence.
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