Afflictive
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: That causes physical or mental pain
Painful
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Full of pain; causing hurt, uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.Requiring effort, labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.Painstaking; careful; industrious
Example sentence: What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.