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afflictive

afflictive adjective: that causes physical or mental pain.

Adjective

afflictive (comparative more afflictive, superlative most afflictive)

  1. That causes physical or mental pain.
    • But the euil of the paine or the punishment of sin, or any kynde of afflictiue aduersitie, is not (in it self) absolutely euil, or simply to be fled from or auoyded.1576, George Gascoigne, The Droomme of Doomes Day, London: Gabriel Cawood, Part 2, Art. 15
    • All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear:
      Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.1718, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume 4, Book 14, p. 96

afflictive meaning in Urdu

afflictive in Urdu

پُر دَرد, دَرد بھَرا, تَکلیف دہ, بَلاخیز, دَرد ناک

Examples of afflictive in a sentence

  • The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.1935, Marianne Moore, “Snakes, Mongooses, Snake Charmers, and the Like”, in Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan, published 1951, page 65:
  • […] in the days and weeks that passed, in absentia—or perhaps from a distance—he’d gradually filled my life, our lives, with his afflictive presence.2015, Chigozie Obioma, chapter 8, in The Fishermen, Boston: Little, Brown:

Forms of afflictive

comparativemore afflictive
superlativemost afflictive

Origin of afflictive

From afflict + -ive.

Words formed from afflictive

Words that rhyme with afflictive

Questions about afflictive

What does afflictive mean?
Afflictive means that causes physical or mental pain.
What is afflictive in Urdu?
Afflictive in Urdu is پُر دَرد, دَرد بھَرا, تَکلیف دہ. See Afflictive meaning in Urdu.
How do you use afflictive in a sentence?
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
What part of speech is afflictive?
Afflictive is an adjective.

Words near afflictive in the dictionary

  1. afflictingly
  2. afflictings
  3. affliction
  4. afflictionless
  5. afflictions
  6. afflictive
  7. afflictively
  8. afflictress
  9. afflictresses
  10. afflicts
  11. afflouncement

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