'Grievous' definitions:
Definition of 'grievous'
From: WordNet
adjective
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, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]
adjective
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: grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending]
adjective
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, grievous, heavy, weighty]
adjective
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, grievous, monstrous]
Definition of 'Grievous'
From: GCIDE
- Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See Grief.]
- 1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. [1913 Webster]
- The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii. 10. [1913 Webster]
- The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. --Gen. xxi. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Griev"ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grievous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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