- 1. a. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. Source: opted
- 2. a. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin. Source: opted
- 3. a. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry. Source: opted
- 4. adj. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought Source: wordnet
- 7. adj. shockingly brutal or cruel Source: wordnet
- 8. 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. Source: webster
- 9. j:100 s. causing or marked by grief or anguish Source: ecdict
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