All afflictive synonyms
af·flic·tive
A a adj afflictive
- aching — causing physical pain or distress: treatment for an aching back.
- achy — If you feel achy, your body hurts.
- agonizing — Something that is agonizing causes you to feel great physical or mental pain.
- distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.
- sore — suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person: He is sore because of all that exercise.
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.