afflictive

1. 1.

   causing misery or pain or distress

   “it was a sore trial to him”

   “the painful process of growing up”

   Synonymspainfulsore

   Similarunpleasant

Questions about afflictive

What does afflictive mean?

afflictive means "causing misery or pain or distress".

How many syllables are in afflictive?

afflictive has 3 syllables: af-flic-tive. The stress falls on "af".

What is another word for afflictive?

Close synonyms include painful, sore. 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 afflictive a common word?

afflictive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.