Dictionary Definition
infliction
Noun
1 the act of imposing something (as a tax or an
embargo) [syn: imposition]
2 an act causing pain or damage
3 something or someone that causes trouble; a
source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got
a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an
infliction" [syn: annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, pain in
the neck, pain in
the ass]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an imposition
Translations
The act of inflicting or something inflicted; an
imposition
- Italian: imposizione, irrogazione, inflizione
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
affliction, bane, bitter cup, bitter draft,
bitter draught, bitter pill, bother, bugbear, burden, burden of care, burdening, calamity, cankerworm of care,
care, castigation, charging, chastening, chastisement, condign
punishment, correction, cross, crown of thorns, crushing
burden, curse, death, demand, deserts, destruction, disciplinary
measures, discipline,
disease, distress, encumbrance, evil, exaction, ferule, freighting, gall, gall and wormwood, grievance, harm, imposing an onus, imposition, inconsiderateness,
inconvenience,
judgment, judicial
punishment, laying on, load, loading, loading down, nemesis, obtrusiveness, open wound,
oppression, pack of
troubles, pains, pains and
punishments, pay, payment, peck of troubles, penal
retribution, penalty,
penology, pest, pestilence, plague, presumptuousness,
punishment, punition, retribution, retributive
justice, running sore, scourge, sea of troubles,
sorrow, tasking, taxing, thorn, torment, trouble, unwarranted demand,
vexation, visitation, waters of
bitterness, weight,
weighting,
well-deserved punishment, what-for, woe