AFFLICTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afflicted mean? 

• AFFLICTED (adjective)
  The adjective AFFLICTED has 2 senses:

1. grievously affected especially by disease

2. mentally or physically unfit

  Familiarity information: AFFLICTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFLICTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grievously affected especially by disease

Synonyms:

afflicted; stricken

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mentally or physically unfit

Synonyms:

afflicted; impaired

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

 Context examples 

It did not seem at all comical to Meg, who kissed and caressed the afflicted heroine in the tenderest manner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was afflicted by a sudden spiritual nausea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A little later the eyelids were afflicted by a nervous twitching that she could not control.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Also, I am suffering from boils, due to the diet, most likely, for I was never afflicted in this manner before.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I asked of God, at once in anguish and humility, if I had not been long enough desolate, afflicted, tormented; and might not soon taste bliss and peace once more.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have spoken of our English-speaking half-breed, Gomez—a fine worker and a willing fellow, but afflicted, I fancy, with the vice of curiosity, which is common enough among such men.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But your father,” said Catherine, “was he afflicted?”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Fanny in those early days had preferred her to Susan; and when the news of her death had at last reached Mansfield, had for a short time been quite afflicted.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Elinor, too, was deeply afflicted; but still she could struggle, she could exert herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had it, together with this piece of the true rood, from the five-and-twentieth descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, who still lives in Jerusalem alive and well, though latterly much afflicted by boils.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)