| 单词 | afflictive |
| 释义 | afflictive (once / 36936 pages) adj WORD FAMILY afflictive: afflictively+/afflict: afflicted, afflicting, affliction, afflictive, afflicts/afflicted: afflictedest, afflictedly/affliction: afflictions USAGE EXAMPLESIn hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) The prudence and martial abilities of the king enabled him, however, soon to suppress these afflictive and unnatural seditions. Alberger, John, Monks, Popes, and their Political I...(2011) It will easily be conceived how afflictive such a dispensation must have been to him who had to bear it. Surtees, William, Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brig...(2011) adj causing misery or pain or distress Syn painful, sore unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings |
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