AFFLICTING Synonyms

• not easily borne; wearing

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• bad; unfortunate

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• causing or marked by grief or anguish

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shockingly brutal or cruel

• extremely painful

• causing physical or psychological pain

• causing misery or pain or distress

• exceptionally bad or displeasing

• causing physical discomfort

• the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason

• extremely painful

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• cause to suffer

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a swarm of insects that attack plants

• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

• an annoyance

• cause to suffer a blight

• annoy continually or chronically

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon

• affect suddenly with deep feeling

• cause physical pain or suffering in