afflictive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite causing misery or pain or distress
    sore; painful.
    • it was a sore trial to him
    • the painful process of growing up

WordNet

Af*flic"tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. afflictif.
Definitions
  1. Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope.
    Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

Webster 1913