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What is the adjective for afflicting?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb afflict which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

afflicted
  1. Suffering from an affliction, or suffering from pain, distress or disability.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. distressed, tormented, hurt, suffering, grieved, plagued, aggrieved, stricken, cursed, impaired, upset, troubled, overwhelmed, miserable, distraught, sad, anxious, depressed, dejected, unhappy, wretched, despondent, disconsolate, shaken, ruffled, disconcerted, heavyhearted, traumatized, devastated, broken, heartbroken, tortured, dolorous, melancholy, desolate, morose, disquieted, unnerved, vexed, sorrowful, doleful, perturbed, bitter, agitated, discomposed, inconsolable, bothered, cheerless, bereaved, discombobulated … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The area in question has now been declared a disaster zone, and provincial funding has been requested to help the afflicted fishermen.”
afflictive
  1. That causes physical or mental pain.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. painful, sore, hurting, aching, achy, stinging, excruciating, nasty, troublesome, agonising, agonizing, hurtful, distressing, throbbing, smarting, tender, sensitive, raw, inflamed, uncomfortable, hurt, burning, irritated, nagging, bruised, in pain, red, injured, wounded, chafed, pained, afflicted, sharp, piercing, reddened, delicate, biting, harrowing, grievous, severe, abscessed, ulcerated, gnawing, irritating, stiff, pounding, tingly, tired, suffering, twingeing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I have just been informed that the House of Representatives has this instant adjourned under the most afflictive circumstances.”
      “Such is the spirit of meek and unmurmuring submission in which we ought to receive the dispensations of God, however severe and afflictive.”
      “The most afflictive of all separations, is that which is occasioned by death.”
afflictionless
  1. Free from affliction.
afflicting
  1. present participle of afflict
  2. Synonyms:
      3. troubling, distressing, tormenting, bothering, worrying, plaguing, upsetting, torturing, harassing, vexing, paining, harrowing, oppressing, besetting, annoying, bedeviling, bedevilling, racking, agonising, agonizing, persecuting, irking, irritating, burdening, hurting, grieving, pestering, harrying, wounding, cursing, excruciating, anguishing, ailing, straining, trying, stressing, besieging, exasperating, affecting, taxing, crucifying, smiting, martyring, discommoding, blighting, pursuing, gripping, pressing, striking, taking … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She could not avoid believing but that Don Felipo and a mother who so fondly loved him, must justly abhor her as the cause of this afflicting event.”
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