Afflicted vs Dismal - What's the difference?
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(afflict)
To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
* 1611 , 1:11–12:
* 1611 , 23:27:
(obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
* Milton
(obsolete) To make low or humble.
* Jeremy Taylor
Disappointingly inadequate.
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Depressing.
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As a verb afflicted
is past tense of afflict.As an adjective dismal is
disappointingly inadequate.afflicted
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Verb
(head)afflict
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Verb
(en verb)- Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict' them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they ' afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
- Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- reassembling our afflicted powers
- (Spenser)
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
dismal
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Adjective
(en adjective)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}