Crossword-Solution: AFFLICTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Afflictive | a. | Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “AFFLICTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| the painful process of growing up | 1 answer |
| algetic | 7 answers |
| paining | 9 answers |
| CAUSING MISERY OR PAIN OR DISTRESS | 11 answers |
| dolorous | 24 answers |
| galling | 26 answers |
| heartbreaking | 27 answers |
| Regrettable | 27 answers |
| plaintive | 28 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| Aching | 52 answers |
| Sore | 54 answers |
| Rueful | 58 answers |
| deplorable | 60 answers |
| grievous | 61 answers |
| Mournful | 63 answers |
| Painful | 65 answers |
| woeful | 67 answers |
| Hurting | 67 answers |
| Distasteful | 71 answers |
| Pitiful | 71 answers |
| Doleful. | 72 answers |
| Dire | 76 answers |
| sorrowful | 76 answers |
| distressing | 77 answers |
| hurtful | 79 answers |
| Unfortunate | 83 answers |
| Bitter | 84 answers |
| Sad | 86 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
| Heavy | 90 answers |
| Bad | 98 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with AFFLICTIVE (5)
Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
People find themselves forced to "afflictive" methods which stand in no relation with the realities of life.
Our road lay through a wood, where we found the ground covered over with young locusts, a plague intolerably afflictive in a country so barren of itself.
Remark, by the way, that the Convention had eliminated from its judicial vocabulary the word “crime”; _delinquencies_ and _misdemeanors_ were alone admitted; and these were punished with fines, imprisonment, and penalties “afflictive or infamous.” Death was an afflictive punishment.
Nor can it be a matter of trouble to be engaged in villanies one's self, and not afflictive to suffer by the villanies of others.
Quotes with AFFLICTIVE (1)
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.