Disquiet vs Afflict - What's the difference?
disquiet | afflict | Related terms |
Want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.
Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.
* 1594 , , IV. i. 154:
Make (someone) worried or anxious
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
As verbs the difference between disquiet and afflict
is that disquiet is make (someone) worried or anxious while afflict is to cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.As a noun disquiet
is want of quiet; want of tranquility in body or mind; uneasiness; restlessness; disturbance; anxiety.As an adjective disquiet
is deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.disquiet
English
Noun
(-)- The lady exhibited disquiet of mind. In other words, she'd gone a bit mad.
Adjective
(en adjective)- I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet .
Derived terms
* disquieting * disquietudeVerb
(en verb)- He felt disquieted at the lack of interest the child had shown.
afflict
English
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.