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Grievous

Grievous Meaning & Definition
Grievous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Grievous?

[adj] causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"
[adj] shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
[adj] of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
[adj] causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Grievous: atrocious | critical | dangerous | evil | flagitious | grave | heartbreaking | heartrending | heavy | heinous | important | monstrous | of import | serious | severe | sorrowful | weighty | wicked

Related Terms | Find terms related to Grievous: abominable | acute | affecting | afflictive | aggrieved | anguished | appalling | arrant | atrocious | awful | base | beastly | beneath contempt | bitter | black | blameworthy | bleak | brutal | burdensome | calamitous | careworn | cataclysmal | cataclysmic | catastrophic | cheerless | comfortless | contemptible | damaging | dangerous | demanding | deplorable | depressing | depressive | despicable | destructive | detestable | dire | disastrous | discomforting | disgusting | dismal | dismaying | distasteful | distressful | distressing | doleful | dolorific | dolorogenic | dolorous | dreadful | dreary | dumb with grief | egregious | enormous | exacting | exigent | fatal | fell | fetid | filthy | flagrant | foul | fulsome | galling | grave | griefful | grief-stricken | grieved | gross | harmful | hateful | heartbreaking | heartrending | heavy | heinous | horrible | horrid | hurtful | in grief | infamous | intolerable | joyless | lamentable | loathsome | lousy | lugubrious | major | monstrous | mournful | moving | nasty | nefarious | noisome | notorious | obnoxious | odious | offensive | oppressive | outrageous | painful | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | plaintive | plangent | plunged in grief | poignant | rank | regrettable | reprehensible | repulsive | rotten | rueful | ruinous | sad | saddening | scandalous | schlock | scurvy | serious | severe | shabby | shameful | sharp | shocking | shoddy | sordid | sore | sorrowed | sorrowful | sorrowing | squalid | superincumbent | taxing | tearful | terrible | too bad | touching | tough | tragic | ugly | unbearable | unclean | uncomfortable | unfortunate | unpalatable | vile | villainous | weighty | woebegone | woeful | worst | worthless | wounding | wreckful | wretched

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Grievous In Webster's Dictionary

\Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See {Grief}.] 1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. --Gen. xxi. 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20. 3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Griev"ous*ness}, n.

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