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English Dictionary: grievous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for grievous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"; "a life-threatening disease" Synonym(s): dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" Synonym(s): grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending 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" Synonym(s): grave, grievous, heavy, weighty 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" Synonym(s): atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grievous \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"ously}, adv. -- {Griev"ousness}, n.