Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: atrocious, critical, dangerous, evil, flagitious, grave, heartbreaking, heartrending, heavy, heinous, important, monstrous, of import, serious, severe, sorrowful, weighty, wicked

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