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grievous

[ gree-vuhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

causing grief or great sorrow:
grievous news.
Synonyms: painful, sorrowful, sad, tragic, heartbreaking
Antonyms: delightful
full of or expressing grief; sorrowful:
a grievous cry.
characterized by great pain or suffering; severe:
grievous bodily harm;
a grievous injury.
having serious effects; grave:
a grievous mistake;
grievous faults.
extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, brutal, etc.; atrocious:
a grievous offense against morality;
grievous crimes.
Synonyms: critical, acute, onerous, harsh, brutal, heinous, appalling
burdensome; oppressive:
to incur grievous expenses.

grievous

/ ˈɡriːvəs /

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English grevous, from Old French grevo(u)s; grieve, -ous

Hildebrand was keenly aware of the grievous failures of Christians under Nazism.

The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

No longer will we have to endure the grievous injury of that flag popping up as a museum shop chotchke.

Some horror will be too great, some attack too grievous for us to ignore.

The tactics almost certainly have saved untold thousands of innocents from grievous injury, even death.

A grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth.

But his record shows grievous instability, and Robert probably had sound reasons for putting a period to his dubieties.

And then the old woman found that she had made a grievous mistake, and hastened to repair it.

At their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.

Here are four distinct predictions; national peculiarity, grievous oppression, universal dispersion and remarkable preservation.

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