grievous

Speech parts

1. grievous - Adjective

2. grievous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

heavy serious severe dangerous grave monstrous weighty atrocious heartbreaking life-threatening heartrending difficult critical hard bitter
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Antonyms

jolly good light lucky easy beautiful
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Phrases with the word

grievous harm grievous bodily injury grievous hurt grievous stare

Anagrams

grevious

Examples

A 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. King Solomon

Nothing is grievous which necessity enjoins. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

grievingly grievious grievor grievous bodily harm grievous bodily injury grievous harm