1. Grievously affected especially by disease
   "The afflicted patients required immediate medical attention";
   - stricken
    
2. Mentally or physically unfit
   "The afflicted patient struggled with daily tasks";
   - impaired

1. Cause great unhappiness for; distress
   "she was afflicted by the death of her parents"
    
2. Cause physical pain or suffering in
   "afflict with the plague";
   - smite

See also: ill, sick, unfit

Type of: damage, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune [rare], upset

Encyclopedia: Afflicted