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grievous [ˈgriːvəs] adj
1. very severe or painful a grievous injury 2. very serious; heinous a grievous sin 3. showing or marked by grief a grievous cry 4. causing great pain or suffering a grievous attack grievously adv grievousness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
grievous adjective 1. deplorable, shocking, appalling, dreadful, outrageous, glaring, intolerable, monstrous, shameful, unbearable, atrocious, heinous, lamentable, egregious Their loss would be a grievous blow to our engineering industries. deplorable pleasant, delightful 2. severe, damaging, heavy, wounding, grave, painful, distressing, dreadful, harmful, afflicting, calamitous, injurious He survived in spite of suffering grievous injuries. severe mild, trivial, insignificant, unimportant Translations grievous adj (form) damage, injury, suffering, blow, setback, crime, neglect → schwer; news → schmerzlich; error → schwerwiegend, schwer wiegend; injustice, wrong → schreiend; his death is a grievous loss → sein Tod ist ein schwerer or schmerzlicher Verlust; grievous bodily harm (Jur) → schwere Körperverletzung grievous [ˈgriːvəs] adj (pain) → atroce, intenso/a; (injuries, fault, loss) → grave; (blow) → pesante; (news) → triste, doloroso/a; (crime) → atroce, orrendo/a grievous [ˈgriːvəs] adj (pain) → atroce, intenso/a; (injuries, fault, loss) → grave; (blow) → pesante; (news) → triste, doloroso/a; (crime) → atroce, orrendo/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| On his replying that he supposed it would be the prow, the Man said, "Death would not be grievous to me, if I could only see my Enemy die before me. Children were born to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon the city. I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity. |
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