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Afflictive vs Disastrous - What's the difference?

afflictive | disastrous | Related terms |

Afflictive is a related term of disastrous.


As adjectives the difference between afflictive and disastrous

is that afflictive is that causes physical or mental pain while disastrous is of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.

afflictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That causes physical or mental pain
    • (Alexander Pope)
    (Prior)

    disastrous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  • foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

    • Synonyms

    * (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic * (ill-omened) ill-boding, , sinister

    Derived terms

    * disastrously