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afflictive Definition

af·flic·tive (ə flik′tiv)

adjective

causing pain or misery

Etymology: ML afflictivus: see afflict

afflictive Related Forms
af·flic′·tively adverb
afflictive Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • formation: Here someone generates an afflictive bodily formation, an afflictive verbal formation, an afflictive mental formation.. .