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Definition of affliction:
Synonyms:
sadness, health, disorder, help, sorrow, mourning, sickness, wretchedness, ailment, heavy, cross, unhappiness, wretchedness, cross, wo, illness, infirmity, over, heartache, happy, disease, melancholy, care, disorder, sickness, visitation, tsoris, regret, cross to bear, plight, indisposition, infirmity.
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adversity (part of speech: noun)
- dolor,
- agony,
- hard times,
- contretemps,
- curse,
- tragedy,
- peril,
- misfortune,
- trial,
- adversity,
- woe,
- bane,
- catastrophe,
- torment,
- burden,
- tribulation,
- calamity,
- hardship,
- poverty,
- bad luck,
- infliction,
- blight,
- ordeal,
- destitution,
- trouble,
- distress,
- grief,
- difficulty,
- rainy day,
- disaster,
- mishap,
- casualty,
- misadventure,
- poorness,
- misery,
- hard luck
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pain (part of speech: noun)
- gripe,
- spasm,
- hurt,
- chafing,
- inflammation,
- stitch,
- painfulness,
- suffering,
- wound,
- stab,
- malaise,
- grief,
- smarting,
- crick,
- bruise,
- discomfort,
- sting,
- migraine,
- pain,
- pang,
- rack,
- torment,
- bite,
- injury,
- headache,
- earache,
- sore,
- anguish,
- ache,
- agony,
- irritation,
- back-ache,
- wrench,
- throe,
- torture,
- misery,
- distress,
- infliction,
- burn,
- throb,
- cramp
- punishment (part of speech: noun)
- bane (part of speech: noun)
Usage examples:
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A sore affliction to my daughter Faithful.
- "Not Pretty, But Precious", John Hay, et al.. -
Sorrow is upon the heart, a heavy grief upon the soul, and a great affliction in the home of me, Doesticks.
- "Doesticks, What He Says", Q. K. Philander Doesticks. -
It has probably kept more people from doing their best work than any other one affliction.
- "Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured", Chas. Cluthe & Sons.