Synonyms for Afflicting:

• adj.

  •grievous (adjective)
  • in tolerable,
  • most wounding,
  • more afflicting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • more heart rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • most afflicting,
  • un bearable,
  • un-bearable,
  • up-setting,
  • in-tolerable,
  • more heart-rending,
  • most heart rending,
  • more wounding,
  • dis quieting,
  • up setting,
  • heart rending.
  •vexatious (adjective)
  • ex asperating,
  • more exasperating,
  • more aggravating,
  • un pleasant,
  • un-pleasant,
  • ex-asperating,
  • dis appointing,
  • most aggravating,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • most exasperating,
  • dis-appointing,
  • dis agreeable.

• v.

  •paining (verb)
  • agonizing,
  • irritating,
  • racking,
  • throbbing,
  • smarting,
  • stitching,
  • Discomforting,
  • tormenting,
  • anguishing,
  • Paining,
  • distressing,
  • hurting,
  • stinging,
  • suffering,
  • aching,
  • chafing,
  • wrenching,
  • inflaming,
  • Cramping.
  •punishing (verb)
  • trying,
  • chastening,
  • punishing,
  • Correcting,
  • Keelhauling,
  • Sentencing,
  • penalizing,
  • Castigating,
  • Pillorying,
  • judging,
  • lambasting,
  • Imprisoning,
  • Persecuting,
  • Disciplining,
  • Crucifying,
  • Fining,
  • Incarcerating,
  • confining,
  • reprising,
  • Burdening,
  • avenging,
  • executing,
  • Chastising.

• Other synonyms:

  •injurious
  • harmful.
  •Other relevant words:
  • disturb,
  • sad,
  • pitiful,
  • piteous,
  • distressingly,
  • persecute,
  • affecting,
  • painfully,
  • grieve,
  • comfortless,
  • dreary,
  • smite,
  • bedevil,
  • annoy,
  • depressing,
  • oppress,
  • Disordering,
  • depressed,
  • painful,
  • exercising,
  • excruciating,
  • dismal,
  • confuse,
  • disconcerting,
  • cruel,
  • vexing,
  • touching,
  • troubling,
  • melancholy,
  • gnaw,
  • embitter,
  • disquieting,
  • poor,
  • depressive,
  • pitiable,
  • pathetic,
  • sorrowful,
  • disobliging,
  • perturbing,
  • perturb,
  • discompose,
  • injure,
  • sorrowing,
  • mortify,
  • pitifully,
  • woeful,
  • Incommoding,
  • gloomy,
  • rueful,
  • ailing,
  • wretched,
  • cheerless,
  • grieving,
  • harry,
  • doleful,
  • unpleasantly,
  • unhinging,
  • harass,
  • pain,
  • aggrieve,
  • upset,
  • worrying,
  • molest,
  • worry,
  • distract,
  • cursing,
  • Molesting,
  • sadly,
  • harrowing,
  • Importune,
  • deplorable,
  • irk,
  • Aggrieving,
  • vex,
  • Oppressing,
  • pester,
  • harsh,
  • damaging,
  • beleaguer,
  • disconcert,
  • agitate,
  • Discomfiting,
  • obsess,
  • afflictive,
  • galling,
  • miserable,
  • hurt,
  • disheartening,
  • besiege,
  • mournful,
  • lamentable,
  • discomfit,
  • inconveniencing,
  • worryingly,
  • Bothering,
  • afflict,
  • disturbing,
  • joyless,
  • beset,
  • Scourging,
  • offend,
  • Afflicter,
  • Plaguing,
  • plaguy,
  • victimize,
  • Griping.

Paraphrases for Afflicting:

• Equivalence

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    affecting.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Infecting, Impacting, Befalling, prevailing, Effecting, Impairing, Plaguing, Jeopardizing, Pertaining, Endangering, Dedicating, Influencing, Bedevilling, encompassing, threatening, disturbing, suffering, impeding, Relating, Traversing, facing, Including, allocating, confronting, haunting, Bothering, hitting, Involving, Arising, Receiving, assigning, Disrupting, Respecting, Experiencing, troubling, beating, Occurring, Besetting, Risking, upsetting, touching, ravaging, undermining, Encountering, dampening, Prejudging, concerning, prejudice, Prejudicing, Earning, bearing, regarding, targeting, Spanning, dealing, striking, covering, torturing, banging, raging, Minting, knocking, crossing, compromising, Bashing, reaching, worrying, typing, kicking, Keying, surrounding, gripping, Earmarking, Undergoing, Punching.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Harming.

Homophones for Afflicting:

• afflicted, apologist, ablactate, apple-sized, aplysiidae, apoplectoid.