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.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • heart-rending,
  • vexatious,
  • egregious,
  • grievous.
  •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:
  • dispiriting,
  • excite,
  • disorder,
  • interrupt,
  • fell,
  • seedy,
  • pestiferous,
  • bunco,
  • irritative,
  • torturesome,
  • execrable,
  • monstrous,
  • abrasive,
  • chagrin,
  • plague,
  • infract,
  • downcast,
  • down in the mouth,
  • laborious,
  • agony,
  • life-threatening,
  • constraining,
  • throw,
  • heavy,
  • ravage,
  • knock over,
  • acerbic,
  • confused,
  • nobble,
  • broken,
  • trouble,
  • blue,
  • under the weather,
  • set upon,
  • chafe,
  • concern,
  • injury,
  • hem in,
  • glooming,
  • foment,
  • rank,
  • pounding,
  • achy,
  • remorseful,
  • reprehensible,
  • stressful,
  • appall,
  • encrust,
  • go against,
  • wounded,
  • despicable,
  • stupefy,
  • gloomful,
  • scathe,
  • scurvy,
  • spite,
  • weighty,
  • rough,
  • plaguily,
  • nettlesome,
  • wear away,
  • vicious,
  • low-down,
  • flummox,
  • jejune,
  • death penalty,
  • incrust,
  • acerbate,
  • bother,
  • smartness,
  • severe,
  • distressful,
  • indisposed,
  • drab,
  • puzzle,
  • torment,
  • budge,
  • judgment,
  • unhinge,
  • short,
  • demoralizing,
  • damage,
  • shake,
  • dangerous,
  • grief-stricken,
  • haunt,
  • disquiet,
  • physical exercise,
  • flagrant,
  • criminal,
  • grueling,
  • downhearted,
  • fight,
  • amaze,
  • worthless,
  • poorly,
  • detrimental,
  • beat,
  • unhappily,
  • flagitious,
  • slimy,
  • melancholic,
  • perturbation,
  • ail,
  • rouse,
  • campaign,
  • arduous,
  • worried,
  • touch,
  • exasperating,
  • abominable,
  • annoyance,
  • distressed,
  • ache,
  • sickly,
  • contrite,
  • vitriolic,
  • crush,
  • shock,
  • charge up,
  • coarse,
  • scummy,
  • pesky,
  • grave,
  • sting,
  • discombobulate,
  • nettle,
  • backbreaking,
  • stir,
  • disquieted,
  • painfulness,
  • acerb,
  • commove,
  • occupy,
  • chivy,
  • ghost,
  • brutal,
  • sewing,
  • torture,
  • defraud,
  • somber,
  • infliction,
  • shake up,
  • poor people,
  • bitterness,
  • annoying,
  • sore,
  • swage,
  • pique,
  • breach,
  • blur,
  • lamentably,
  • press,
  • sulfurous,
  • dumbfound,
  • dispirited,
  • disturbance,
  • deleterious,
  • jumble,
  • nuisance,
  • cutting,
  • capital punishment,
  • bitingly,
  • harm,
  • prejudicious,
  • untune,
  • devil,
  • physical exertion,
  • headache,
  • constrictive,
  • interest,
  • inadequate,
  • silly,
  • ruthful,
  • paltry,
  • inflammation,
  • crusade,
  • raise up,
  • vexation,
  • restricting,
  • mourning,
  • atrocious,
  • weakened,
  • gruelling,
  • transgress,
  • perplex,
  • envenom,
  • charge,
  • chevvy,
  • bug,
  • overthrow,
  • mix up,
  • bowl over,
  • close,
  • agonising,
  • nonplus,
  • rag,
  • poignant,
  • hornswoggle,
  • derange,
  • correction,
  • worrisome,
  • dun,
  • erode,
  • overturned,
  • biting,
  • frustrate,
  • bewilder,
  • pestering,
  • diddle,
  • piercingly,
  • overturn,
  • pain in the neck,
  • abase,
  • badgering,
  • acid,
  • sulphurous,
  • deflect,
  • break,
  • rook,
  • plaintive,
  • negative,
  • ridiculous,
  • hard,
  • acrimonious,
  • deplorably,
  • exercise,
  • derangement,
  • dreadful,
  • roughshod,
  • limiting,
  • confound,
  • gravel,
  • necrose,
  • mulct,
  • sorry,
  • victimise,
  • bothersome,
  • bruise,
  • woe,
  • dingy,
  • measly,
  • dark,
  • mystify,
  • appal,
  • terrible,
  • edged,
  • get,
  • shift,
  • goldbrick,
  • turn on,
  • humble,
  • subdue,
  • peaked,
  • prejudicial,
  • gall,
  • botheration,
  • put off,
  • caustic,
  • sulky,
  • unwell,
  • chevy,
  • unworthy,
  • upturned,
  • disordered,
  • violate,
  • anguish,
  • uncooperative,
  • black bile,
  • gangrene,
  • woefully,
  • blistering,
  • smart,
  • turn over,
  • irritate,
  • uncheerful,
  • sorely,
  • sorrow,
  • suppress,
  • befuddle,
  • glaring,
  • care,
  • hapless,
  • pain in the ass,
  • cark,
  • barbarous,
  • detriment,
  • wound,
  • hassle,
  • disconsolate,
  • sombre,
  • pose,
  • woebegone,
  • teasing,
  • tease,
  • painful sensation,
  • scam,
  • excruciation,
  • chastisement,
  • nerve-racking,
  • get at,
  • condemnable,
  • awful,
  • push,
  • distress,
  • badger,
  • fuddle,
  • abject,
  • tump over,
  • acrid,
  • upsetting,
  • rile,
  • down,
  • fox,
  • crying,
  • swindle,
  • nark,
  • plaguey,
  • gnaw at,
  • low,
  • suffer,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • misfortunate,
  • toilsome,
  • execution,
  • sphacelate,
  • vile,
  • injurious,
  • crucify,
  • disturbed,
  • savage,
  • outrage,
  • short-change,
  • drear,
  • maddening,
  • trauma,
  • pain sensation,
  • low-spirited,
  • scandalize,
  • flurry,
  • stick,
  • ugly,
  • bereaved,
  • eat at,
  • bereft,
  • demoralising,
  • bitterly,
  • tip over,
  • grim,
  • turnover,
  • baffle,
  • chivvy,
  • workout,
  • circumvent,
  • obscure,
  • virulent,
  • stir up,
  • humiliate,
  • scandalise,
  • gross,
  • surround,
  • infuriating,
  • provoke,
  • unspeakable,
  • get to,
  • judgement,
  • throb,
  • throw out of kilter,
  • bedevilment,
  • con,
  • heartbreaking,
  • serious.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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.