Afflicted means "impaired" or "stricken" and usually refers to a person who is mentally or physically unfit, or has been grievously affected by disease. This adjective's Latin root, afflictare, means "to damage, harass, or torment," which may sometimes be a good description of how an afflicted person feels.

What is the definition of afflicting?

transitive verb. 1a : to cause pain or suffering to : to distress so severely as to cause persistent suffering or anguish people afflicted with arthritis a region afflicted by hunger and poverty. b : trouble, injure.

What kind of word is affliction?

a state of pain, distress, or grief; misery: They sympathized with us in our affliction.