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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 See Also \| 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"ously}, adv. -- {Griev"ousness}, n.

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"

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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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