afflictive
adj. 给人痛苦的；苦恼的；难受的
近义词：painful，sore，torturous，distressful，tormenting，vexing，distressing，torturing，harassing，vexatious，plaguing，troubling，dolorous，mournful，woeful，heavy，grievous，sad，pitiful，unhappy，doleful，sorrowful，hard，deplorable，unfortunate，wretched，unlucky，severe，piteous，pathetic，pathetical，black，tragic，dire，harrowing，cataclysmic，ruinous，catastrophic，cataclysmal，disastrous，calamitous，
英英释义
Adjective
- causing misery or pain or distress;
"it was a sore trial to him" "the painful process of growing up"
例句
用作形容词(adj.)
- Sometimes insatiability cannot be used to interpret this afflictive mind caused by a watery and dispassionate life.对人类这这种因生命的平淡和缺少激情而苦恼的心态，有时是不能用不知足来解释的。