Word Meanings - AFFLICTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFLICTIVE)

• Bitter
• Harsh
• sour
• sharp
• tart
• acrimonious
• sarcastic
• severe
• sad
• afflictive
• intense
• stinging
• pungent
• acrid
• cutting
• Grievous
• Sad
• heavy
• lamentable
• deplorable
• sorrowful
• painful
• burdensome
• calamitous
• baleful
• hurtful
• disastrous
• unhappy
• Severe
• Serious
• austere
• stern
• grave
• strict
• harsh
• rigid
• rigorous
• distressing
• violent
• extreme
• exact
• critical
• censorious
• caustic
• keen
• bitter
• cruel
• Sharp
• Thin
• fine
• shrewd
• discerning
• clever
• acute
• pointed
• aculeated
• penetrating
• acid
• shrill
• piercing
• eager
• active
• ardent
• sore
• hard
• animated
• spirited
• Sore
• Painful
• irritated
• susceptible
• excoriated
• raw
• scarified
• ulcerous
• grievous

Related words: (words related to AFFLICTIVE)

• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• STINGBULL
  The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• STING RAY; STINGRAY
  Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• HURTFUL
  Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
• SCARIFIER
  The instrument used for scarifying. (more info) 1. One who scarifies.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• SCARIFICATOR
  An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• PERSISTING
  Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to