1. grievous - Adjective
2. grievous - Adjective Satellite
Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA prosperous fool is a grievous burden. Aeschylus
Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations. John of Kronstadt
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief. Franz Grillparzer
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. Richard Dawkins
I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. Solomon
Nothing is grievous which necessity enjoins. Latin Proverb