AFFLICTED Synonyms

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved

• sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities

• bearing a physically heavy weight or load

• brought low in spirit

• affected or marked by low spirits

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• generalized feeling of distress

• facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

• suffering severe physical strain or distress

• afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• full of sorrow

• sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

• bad; unfortunate

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• burdened psychologically or mentally

• emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

• deserving or inciting pity

• (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

• marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• grievously affected especially by disease

• (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

• put out of action (by illness)