afflictionless
afflictionless adjective: free from affliction.
Adjective
afflictionless (comparative more afflictionless, superlative most afflictionless)
- Free from affliction.
- […] he always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular friends, which he did with a complacent air of being thereby elevated above the common herd of afflictionless humanity […]1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 9, in Far from the Madding Crowd, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, pages 124–125
- […] unearthly cries as if spirits clustered in every clod of earth, feeling and needing those cries, that expiation, as though from it[,] all would be resolved into a bright, afflictionless paradise.1996, Edna O’Brien, Down by the River,, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 216
- Synonyms:
- unafflicted
Synonyms of afflictionless
Forms of afflictionless
| comparative | more afflictionless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most afflictionless |
Origin of afflictionless
From affliction + -less.
Questions about afflictionless
- What does afflictionless mean?
- Afflictionless means free from affliction.
- What part of speech is afflictionless?
- Afflictionless is an adjective.
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