Synonyms for affliction
əˈflɪk ʃənaf·flic·tion

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1. affliction

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

   See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

   Synonyms:
   distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. affliction

   Synonyms:
   trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow

   Antonyms:
   consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more , boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure

Princeton's WordNet

1. afflictionnoun

   a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

2. afflictionnoun

   a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

3. afflictionnoun

   a cause of great suffering and distress

Matched Categories

1. • Adversity
   • Ill Health
   • Trouble

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1. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortune

2. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart

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1. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tribulation, adversity, trouble, buffeting, bereavement, hardship, visitation, scourge, distress, misfortune

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1. List of paraphrases for "affliction":

   infirmity, scourge, sorrow, grief, bereavement, curse

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How to use affliction in a sentence?

1. Simone Weil:

   Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.”

2. Rosilind Russell:

   When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

3. Tryon Edwards:

   Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

4. Robert Southey:

   Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

5. Abraham Lincoln:

   It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction