GRIEVOUS
\ɡɹˈiːvəs], \ɡɹˈiːvəs], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈiː_v_ə_s]\
Definitions of GRIEVOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
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causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
By Princeton University
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shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
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causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"
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causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
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Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
By Oddity Software
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Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
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Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
By Noah Webster.
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Causing sadness or sorrow; hard to be borne; painful; oppressive; pitiable; harmful; vexatious.
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Grievously.
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Grievousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Grievously.
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Grievousness.
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Causing grief or injury; harmful; distressing; severe.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.