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afflictingadjective hard to accept or bear especially emotionallythe afflicting sight of so many earthquake victims was too much even for some hardened rescue workers agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportableappalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretchedacute, extreme, intense, piercing gratifying, pleasing, sweet bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerablelivable(also liveable), sufferable, survivableacceptable, allowable, reasonable to cause persistent suffering tothe South was afflicted by a severe drought he's been afflicted by nightmares ever since the accident agonizing, anguishing, bedeviling, besetting, besieging, cursing, excruciating, harrowing, persecuting, plaguing, racking, tormenting, torturing assailing, attackingbadgering, dogging, hounding, pursuing, ridingaggravating, agitating, annoying, bothering, bugging, chafing, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, getting, grating, griping, hagriding, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, molesting, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting out, rasping, riling, vexingdiscomforting, discomposing, disquieting, flustering, grieving, perturbing, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worryingcrushing, oppressing, overpowering, overwhelming, smiting, striking, tyrannizing, victimizinghurting, paining, panging, pricking, smarting, stabbing, stinging, wringingmartyring abetting, aiding, assisting, helpingdelivering, releasing, relieving, reprievingcomforting, consoling, contenting, quieting, solacing, soothing, succoring |