Grievous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing grief, pain, or anguish: a grievous loss.
  • adj. Serious or dire; grave: a grievous crime.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
  • adj. Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
  • adj. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious.
  • adj. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Causing grief or sorrow; afflictive; hard to bear; oppressive.
  • Inflicting or capable of inflicting pain or suffering; distressing in act or use; fierce; savage.
  • Atrocious; heinous; aggravated.
  • Expressing grief or affliction; full of grief as, a grievous cry.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
  • adj. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
  • adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish
  • adj. shockingly brutal or cruel
  • Equivalent
    important    of import    critical    sorrowful    evil   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    painful    afflictive    offensive    harmful    heinous    aggravated    flagitious    depressing    sad    intense   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Beavis   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dreadful    dire    intolerable    appal    disastrous    humiliate    gravest    needless    shameful    serious