Usually means: Causing pain, suffering, or distress.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. afflicting: Merriam-Webster
  2. afflicting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. afflicting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Afflicting, afflicting: Wordnik
  5. afflicting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. afflicting: Wiktionary
  7. Afflicting, afflicting: Dictionary.com
  8. afflicting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Afflicting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. afflicting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Afflicting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. afflicting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. afflicting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. afflicting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afflicting: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  An affliction.

Similar:
trouble, pain, ail, smite, affected, affectee, pertaining, apoplectic, enemy, irritative, more...

Opposite:
healing, curing, relieving, soothing, alleviating

Types:
depressing, saddening, gloomy, melancholy, dismal, blue, more...

Adjectives:
most, less, french, serious, mail, intransigent



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Similar:
trouble, pain, ail, smite, affected, affectee, pertaining, apoplectic, enemy, irritative, more...

Opposite:
healing, curing, relieving, soothing, alleviating

Types:
depressing, saddening, gloomy, melancholy, dismal, blue, more...

Adjectives:
most, less, french, serious, mail, intransigent



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