Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See
Grief.]
1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to
bear; offensive; harmful.
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The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii.
10.
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The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
--Gen. xxi.
11.
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2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated;
flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20.
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3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or
affliction; as, a grievous cry. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
grievous
adj 1: 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"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous,
grave, serious, severe, life-threatening]
2: causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a
grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the
heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" [syn: heartbreaking,
heartrending]
3: 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" [syn: grave, heavy, weighty]
4: 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" [syn: atrocious,
flagitious, heinous, monstrous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
157 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, grief-stricken, griefful, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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