The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afflictive \Af*flic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. afflictif.]
Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief;
distressing. ``Jove's afflictive hand.''
--Pope.
Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain.
--Prior.
Wiktionary
a. That causes physical or mental pain
WordNet
Usage examples of "afflictive".
What shall we do but seek ability at the Divine footstool to bow in humble resignation to this afflictive dispensation?
To these afflictive tidings was added some discouragement in respect to their proposed journey to Russia.
I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible.
When the curtain at last fell, he burst into the stormiest applause, and kept it up--as did the whole house--until the afflictive tenor had come three times before the curtain to make his bow.
In my childhood I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible.