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grievous

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griev⋅ous

  [gree-vuhs]
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–adjective
1. causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
2. flagrant; outrageous; atrocious: a grievous offense against morality.
3. full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry.
4. burdensome or oppressive.
5. causing great pain or suffering: arrested for causing grievous bodily harm to someone in a bar.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME grevous < OF grevo(u)s. See grieve, -ous

Related forms:
griev⋅ous⋅ly, adverb
griev⋅ous⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. distressing, sad, sorrowful, painful. 2. deplorable, lamentable, calamitous, heinous, flagitious, dreadful, shameful, iniquitous.

Antonyms:
1. delightful.
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griev·ous   (grē'vəs)   
adj.  

  1. Causing grief, pain, or anguish: a grievous loss.

  2. Serious or dire; grave: a grievous crime.


[Anglo-Norman grevous, from grever, to harm, aggrieve, from Latin gravāre, to burden; see grieve.]
griev'ous·ly adv., griev'ous·ness n.
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