afflict

Other forms of afflict

past tense

afflicted·

present participle

afflicting·

third person

afflicts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about afflict

What does afflict mean?

afflict means "cause great unhappiness for; distress". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in afflict?

afflict has 2 syllables: af-flict. The stress falls on "flict". In IPA it is /əˈflɪkt/.

What is another word for afflict?

Close synonyms include smite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is afflict a common word?

afflict is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with afflict?

1 word rhymes with afflict. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.