Synonyms for affliction
əˈflɪk ʃənaf·flic·tion

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1. affliction

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

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   Synonyms:
   distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. affliction

   Synonyms:
   trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow

   Antonyms:
   consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more , boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure

Princeton's WordNet

1. afflictionnoun

   a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

2. afflictionnoun

   a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

3. afflictionnoun

   a cause of great suffering and distress

Matched Categories

1. • Adversity
   • Ill Health
   • Trouble

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1. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortune

2. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart

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1. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tribulation, adversity, trouble, buffeting, bereavement, hardship, visitation, scourge, distress, misfortune

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1. List of paraphrases for "affliction":

   infirmity, scourge, sorrow, grief, bereavement, curse

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How to use affliction in a sentence?

1. Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

   The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

2. Tryon Edwards:

   Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".

3. James Baldwin:

   Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

4. Robert Southey:

   Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

5. Justice Antonin Scalia:

   Sometimes people come up to me and inquire, 'Justice Scalia, when did you first become an originalist?' As though it's some weird affliction, you know, 'When did you start eating human flesh?'.