Synonyms and Antonyms of affliction
1
a state of great suffering of body or mind
- she listened with deep affliction as her daughter told her about the latest trouble she was in
agony, anguish, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation, woe
discomfort
cross, crucible, trial
heartache, heartbreak, joylessness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
emergency, pinch
asperity, difficulty, hardship, rigor
ache, pang, smarting, soreness, stitch, throe, twinge
danger, jeopardy, trouble
2
deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved
- felt such great affliction over the destruction of the beautiful old home
agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment
blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness
contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame
melancholia, self-pity
gaiety (also gayety), gayness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness
hopefulness, optimism, sunniness
enjoyment
content, contentedness, contentment
blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, delight, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, pleasure, rapture, rapturousness
3
a source of harm or misfortune
- alcohol has been his affliction ever since he took his first drink at the age of 12
hex, hoodoo, jinx
danger, hazard, menace, peril, risk, threat, trouble
booby trap, catch, pitfall, snag
advantage, aid, assistance, gift, help, relief, support
comfort, consolation, solace
delight, joy, pleasure
armor, defense, guard, protection, safeguard, safety, security, shield
4
a source of persistent emotional distress
- suffered from afflictions that only a professional therapist could deal with
5
something that causes loss or pain
- cronyism and corruption are afflictions on the body politic
disservice, injustice, outrage, wrong
affront, dart, indignity, insult, offense (or offence)
beating, crippling, mayhem, mutilation
defacement, disability, disablement, disfigurement, impairment
lesion
rupture, strain
abrasion, chafe, scrape, scratch
boo-boo, bruise, contusion, swelling, wound
bump, concussion
cut, gash, laceration
burn, scald, scar, scathe, sear
