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Definition of Grievous
1. Adjective. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. "A life-threatening disease"
Similar to: Critical
Derivative terms: Dangerousness, Seriousness, Severeness
2. Adjective. Causing or marked by grief or anguish. "The heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
3. Adjective. Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought. "The weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
Similar to: Important, Of Import
Derivative terms: Graveness, Gravity, Weight, Weightiness
4. Adjective. Shockingly brutal or cruel. "No excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
Similar to: Evil
Derivative terms: Atrociousness, Atrocity, Atrocity, Monster, Monstrosity
Definition of Grievous
1. a. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
Definition of Grievous
1. Adjective. Causing grief, pain or sorrow. ¹
2. Adjective. Serious, grave, dire or dangerous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grievous
1. causing grief [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grievous
Literary usage of Grievous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"SERMON XXXVII PENANCES And hia commandments are not grievous. — 1 JOHN v. 3.
NO, — they are not grievous, my dear auditors. — Amongst the many prejudices ..."
2. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1794)
"She knew, that Montoni would not attend; and it was fo very grievous to her to
think that the remains of her unfortunate aunt would pafs to the grave ..."
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