afflictive
adjective
af·flic·tive ə-ˈflik-tiv 
: causing affliction : distressing, troublesome
afflictive emotions
afflictively adverb
Synonyms
- aching
- achy
- hurting
- nasty
- painful
- sore
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Example Sentences
the afflictive disease known as shingles is a reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox
Recent Examples on the Web Perhaps this afflictive uncertainty can be redefined. 
Krista Stevens, Longreads, 26 Apr. 2018
Krista Stevens, Longreads, 26 Apr. 2018 Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French afflictif, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin afflīctīvus, from Latin afflīctus (past participle of afflīgere "to afflict") + -īvus -ive
First Known Use
1576, in the meaning defined above
afflictive
adjective
as in painful
causing or feeling bodily pain the afflictive disease known as shingles is a reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- painful
- sore
- aching
- hurting
- damaging
- injurious
- hurtful
- achy
- swollen
- nasty
- harmful
- torturous
- agonizing
- pinching
- pernicious
- excruciating
- noxious
- deleterious
- severe
- detrimental
- smarting
- grievous
- bleeding
- cramping
- chafing
- stinging
- prickling
- tender
- burning
- inflamed
- festering
- nagging
- pricking
- wounding
- itching
- raw
- threatening
- enflamed
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- indolent
- painless
- curative
- remedial
- healing
- helping
- disconformable
- disconformities
- disconformity
- discongruity
- instrumentator
- instrumented
- instrumenting
- instrumentman
- instrumentmen
- instruments
- insuavity
- insubjection
- insubmergible
- insubmersible
- insubmissive
- insubordinate
- insubordinately
- insubordinates
- insubordination
- insubordinations
- insubstantial
- insubstantialities
- insubstantiality
- insubstantially
- insubvertible