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[ gree-vuhs ] / ˈgri vəs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR grievous ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivecausing grief or great sorrow: grievous news. flagrant; outrageous; atrocious: a grievous offense against morality. full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry. burdensome or oppressive. causing great pain or suffering: arrested for causing grievous bodily harm to someone in a bar. Origin of grievous1250–1300; Middle English grevous<Old French grevo( u) s.See grieve, -ous SYNONYMS FOR grievous1 distressing, sad, sorrowful, painful. 2 deplorable, lamentable, calamitous, heinous, flagitious, dreadful, shameful, iniquitous. SEE SYNONYMS FOR grievous ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR grievousSEE ANTONYMS FOR grievous ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM grievousgriev·ous·ly, adverbgriev·ous·ness, nounnon·griev·ous, adjectivenon·griev·ous·ly, adverb non·griev·ous·ness, nouno·ver·griev·ous, adjectiveo·ver·griev·ous·ly, adverbo·ver·griev·ous·ness, noun Words nearby grievousgrieshoch, grievance, grievance committee, grievant, grieve, grievous, grievous bodily harm, griff, griffa, griffe, Griffes Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for grievousHildebrand was keenly aware of the grievous failures of Christians under Nazism. The Catholic Philosopher Who Took on Hitler|John Henry Crosby|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse. 'Please Don't Die!': The Frantic Battle to Save Murdered Cops|Michael Daly|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST No longer will we have to endure the grievous injury of that flag popping up as a museum shop chotchke. We've Got Bigger Problems Than a Confederate Flag|John McWhorter|August 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Some horror will be too great, some attack too grievous for us to ignore. American Voters Don’t Get Foreign Policy|Stuart Stevens|July 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The tactics almost certainly have saved untold thousands of innocents from grievous injury, even death. Stop-and-Frisk Ruled Unconstitutional: A ‘Fair Trial’ for the NYPD?|Michael Daly|August 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST The sudden withholding of these supplies was, therefore, a grievous calamity. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada|Francis Parkman By my troth, his ill-report hath done me grievous detriment. But grievous it is to think that no one said thanks even to her dead body, though she herself was shy and shrank from all thanks. Dream Tales and Prose Poems|Ivan Turgenev Yet it had radical and grievous defects, and these, being in its most vital parts, robbed it of half its efficiency. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4)|Sir Frederick Maurice. Here are four distinct predictions; national peculiarity, grievous oppression, universal dispersion and remarkable preservation. Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
British Dictionary definitions for grievous
adjectivevery severe or painfula grievous injury very serious; heinousa grievous sin showing or marked by griefa grievous cry causing great pain or sufferinga grievous attack Derived forms of grievousgrievously, adverbgrievousness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to grievousdreadful, outrageous, monstrous, atrocious, egregious, lamentable, deplorable, calamitous, flagrant, appalling, heinous, tragic, shameful, dire, shocking, glaring, intolerable, unbearable, damaging, agonizing |