Word Meanings - AFFLICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or

Additional info about word: AFFLICTION

1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. Addison. Syn. -- Calamity; sorrow; distress; grief; pain; adversity; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; trouble; hardship. -- Affliction, Sorrow, Grief, Distress. Affliction and sorrow are terms of wide and general application; grief and distress have reference to particular cases. Affliction is the stronger term. The suffering lies deeper in the soul, and usually arises from some powerful cause, such as the loss of what is most dear -- friends, health, etc. We do not speak of mere sickness or pain as "an affliction," though one who suffers from either is said to be afflicted; but deprivations of every kind, such as deafness, blindness, loss of limbs, etc., are called afflictions, showing that term applies particularly to prolonged sources of suffering. Sorrow and grief are much alike in meaning, but grief is the stronger term of the two, usually denoting poignant mental suffering for some definite cause, as, grief for the death of a dear friend; sorrow is more reflective, and is tinged with regret, as, the misconduct of a child is looked upon with sorrow. Grief is often violent and demonstrative; sorrow deep and brooding. Distress implies extreme suffering, either bodily or mental. In its higher stages, it denotes pain of a restless, agitating kind, and almost always supposes some struggle of mind or body. Affliction is allayed, grief subsides, sorrow is soothed, distress is mitigated.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFLICTION)

• Adversity
• Ill-luck
• misfortune
• misery
• calamity
• disaster
• distress
• unsuccess
• failure
• ruin
• trouble
• affliction
• sorrow
• Attrition
• Sorrow
• repentance
• penitence
• compunction
• remorse
• self-reproach
• Blow
• Puff
• blast
• breath
• stroke
• infliction
• wound
• disappointment
• knock
• shock
• Burden
• Load
• weight
• Incubus
• obstruction
• oppression
• grief
• difficulty
• Calamity
• Disaster
• mishap
• catastrophe
• misadventure
• visitation
• reverse
• blight

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFFLICTION)

• Restore
• expand
• swell
• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

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  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
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  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
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  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
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  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
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  A block upon which ore is broken up.
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• SHOCKDOG
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  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• ESTRANGE
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• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
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• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.