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Synonyms for affliction
əˈflɪk ʃənaf·flic·tion

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.8 / 4 votes

  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.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  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

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  1. afflictionnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "affliction":

    infirmity, scourge, sorrow, grief, bereavement, curse

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#1452trial
#1938pain
#3124trouble
#10700grief
#11618curse
#12121regret
#12669distress
#12972wo
#14621sorrow
#15487misery
#18051sadness
#18786hardship
#19478mourning
#25291melancholy
#25754bereavement
#35321scourge
#36859tribulation
#37535affliction
#72653infirmity

How to use affliction in a sentence?

  1. Claudia Bivins:

    It still weighs me down, the flag represents racism, slavery and affliction.

  2. Simone Weil:

    Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

  3. Alexander Pope:

    Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

  4. Washington Irving:

    The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  5. Justice Antonin Scalia:

    Sometimes people come up to me and inquire, 'Justice Scalia, when did you first become an originalist?' As though it's some weird affliction, you know, 'When did you start eating human flesh?'.


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