grievous
Adjective Satellite
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- "grievous bodily harm"
- causing or marked by grief or anguish
- "a grievous loss"
- "a grievous cry"
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- "a grievous fault"
- shockingly brutal or cruel
- "a grievous offense against morality"
- "a grievous crime"
Adj
- Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.
- Serious, grave, dire, or dangerous.
Adjective
- Causing intense sorrow, suffering, or distress.
Examples
- The opponent’s final move was a grievous blow to his chances of winning.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English grevous, from Anglo-Norman grevous, from Old French grever, from Latin gravō (“I burden”). Developed in the 13th century. Equivalent to grief + -ous.
Synonyms
atrocious, dangerous, flagitious, grave, heartbreaking, heartrending, heavy, life-threatening, monstrous, serious, severe, weighty, atrabiliary, atrabilious, austere, dangersome, demure, deplorable, depressing, distressing, earnest, grievous, hazardous, jeopardous, lachrymable, lack-laughter, lamentable, miserable, mournful, parlous, pathetic, pathetisad, periculous, perilous, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, precarious, regrettable, risky, rueful, sad, saddening, sage, saturnine, sedate, sober, solemn, solemncholy, somber, sombre, sorrowful, staid, stern, sweer, thoughtful, tragic, unhappy, unsafe, upsetting, weightsome, woebegone, woeful
Scrabble Score: 12
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