Thesaurus / afflictive
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What an afflictive and appalling spectacle did it present to her!
HILDEBRANDANONYMOUS"I do well to be angry, even unto death," is the usual style in which we greet the afflictive providence of God.
THE WORLD'S GREAT SERMONS, VOLUME 7: HALE TO FARRARVARIOUSWith the calm and dignified fortitude of a Christian, philosopher and hero—he met the shafts of afflictive fate.
SAGES AND HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONL. CARROLL JUDSONThe "afflictive birch, cursed by unlettered idle youth," has other uses than that which the quotation would seem likely to imply.
POACHERS AND POACHINGJOHN WATSONThey never have even a partial representation of ministers, except under the afflictive dispensations of Providence.
HISTORY AND ECCLESIASTICAL RELATIONS OF THE CHURCHES OF THE PRESBYTERIAL ORDER AT AMOY, CHINAJ. V. N. TALMAGENo news of course could be so afflictive to my dear parents, as to hear of the last rash and irretrievable step which I had taken.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE RIFLE BRIGADEWILLIAM SURTEESIt will easily be conceived how afflictive such a dispensation must have been to him who had to bear it.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE RIFLE BRIGADEWILLIAM SURTEESTo these afflictive tidings was added some discouragement in respect to their proposed journey to Russia.
MEMOIR AND DIARY OF JOHN YEARDLEY, MINISTER OF THE GOSPELJOHN YEARDLEYWhat shall we do but seek ability at the Divine footstool to bow in humble resignation to this afflictive dispensation?
MEMOIR AND DIARY OF JOHN YEARDLEY, MINISTER OF THE GOSPELJOHN YEARDLEYThe most afflictive symptom was want of sleep, which he endeavoured to obtain by the motion of a cradle.
THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, VOL. 6SAMUEL JOHNSONSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 15, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO AFFLICTIVE
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- bad
- calamitous
- deplorable
- dire
- dirty
- distressing
- doleful
- dolorous
- god-awful
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- hurting
- lousy
- low
- lugubrious
- meager
- mean
- melancholy
- mournful
- pitiful
- plaintive
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- rotten
- rueful
- sad
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- stinking
- tragic
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- unsatisfactory
- woeful
- wretched
- aching
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- agonizing
- arduous
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- biting
- burning
- caustic
- difficult
- dire
- disagreeable
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- extreme
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- piercing
- raw
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- sensitive
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- trying
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- throbbing
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- afflictive
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- biting
- burning
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- difficult
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- distasteful
- distressing
- dreadful
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- tedious
- tender
- terrible
- throbbing
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- unpleasant
- vexatious
- aching
- achy
- afflictive
- agonizing
- arduous
- awful
- biting
- burning
- caustic
- difficult
- dire
- disagreeable
- distasteful
- distressing
- dreadful
- excruciating
- extreme
- extremely bad
- grievous
- hard
- harrowing
- hurtful
- hurting
- inflamed
- irritated
- laborious
- nagging
- piercing
- raw
- saddening
- sensitive
- severe
- sharp
- sore
- stinging
- tedious
- tender
- terrible
- throbbing
- tormenting
- troublesome
- trying
- uncomfortable
- unpleasant
- vexatious
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