Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing grief, pain, or anguish.
- adjective Serious or dire; grave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
- adjective Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious.
- adjective Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
grief ,pain orsorrow . - adjective
Serious ,grave ,dire ordangerous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- adjective causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- adjective causing or marked by grief or anguish
- adjective shockingly brutal or cruel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I use the word grievous to connote harms that are severe.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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I use the word grievous to connote harms that are severe.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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I use the word grievous to connote harms that are severe.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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I use the word grievous to connote harms that are severe.
BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010
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And that, Steve-o, is what we call a grievous moral error.
HUMORLESSBITCH 2008
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What makes them to the regenerate "not grievous," is faith which "overcometh the world" (1Jo 5: 4): in proportion as faith is strong, the grievousness of God's commandments to the rebellious flesh is overcome.
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But that which makes the judgment the more grievous is that their hearts seem to be hardened under it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The gate was arched like a great hall and over walls and roof ramped vines with grapes of many colours; the red like rubies and the black like ebonies; and beyond it lay a bower of trelliced boughs growing fruits single and composite, and small birds on branches sang with melodious recite, and the thousand-noted nightingale shrilled with her varied shright; the turtle with her cooing filled the site; the blackbird whistled like human wight47 and the ring-dove moaned like a drinker in grievous plight.
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What’s grievous is not that the guy turned out to be blind but that Bush feels perfectly okay clowning around at a press conference while people he sent capriciously to war are dying in battle.
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So there ` s another issue: why are doctors succumbing to the dollar and causing this kind of grievous harm to a person just because they can pay?
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