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Synonyms for affliction
əˈflɪk ʃənaf·flic·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
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Synonyms:
distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, woPreposition:
Grief at a loss; for a friend.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
affliction
Synonyms:
trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrowAntonyms:
consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more , boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure
Princeton's WordNet
afflictionnoun
a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity
afflictionnoun
a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health
afflictionnoun
a cause of great suffering and distress
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
afflictionnoun
Synonyms:
calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortuneafflictionnoun
Synonyms:
grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
afflictionnoun
Synonyms:
tribulation, adversity, trouble, buffeting, bereavement, hardship, visitation, scourge, distress, misfortune
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1351 | disease | |
#1452 | trial | |
#1938 | pain | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#10700 | grief | |
#11618 | curse | |
#12121 | regret | |
#12669 | distress | |
#12972 | wo | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#15487 | misery | |
#18051 | sadness | |
#18786 | hardship | |
#19478 | mourning | |
#25291 | melancholy | |
#25754 | bereavement | |
#35321 | scourge | |
#36859 | tribulation | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#72653 | infirmity |
How to use affliction in a sentence?
It still weighs me down, the flag represents racism, slavery and affliction.
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.
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.
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.
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?'.
Translations for affliction
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- болка, огорчение, измъчванеBulgarian
- GebrechenGerman
- θλίψηGreek
- afliktoEsperanto
- tribulación, aflicciónSpanish
- tuska, kärsimysFinnish
- détresse, afflictionFrench
- afflizioneItalian
- מHebrew
- 고통Korean
- kepayahanMalay
- lijden, aandoening, pijnDutch
- cierpieniePolish
- afliçãoPortuguese
- страда́ние, огорче́ние, го́ре, печа́ль, боль, муче́ниеRussian
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