grievous (redirected from grievousness)

griev·ous  (grvs)

adj.

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

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

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[Anglo-Norman grevous, from grever, to harm, aggrieve, from Latin gravre, to burden; see grieve.]

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grievous·ly adv.

grievous·ness n.

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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

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	grievous - 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"; "a life-threatening disease" life-threatening, dangerous, grave, serious, severe critical - being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage"
	2.	grievous - causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" heartbreaking, heartrending sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
	3.	grievous - of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" grave, weighty, heavy important, of import - of great significance or value; "important people"; "the important questions of the day"
	4.	grievous - 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" atrocious, flagitious, monstrous evil - morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"

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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 [ˈgriːvəs]

A. ADJ [loss etc] → doloroso, penoso; [blow] → severo; [pain] → fuerte; [crime, offence, error] → grave; [task] → penoso

B. CPD grievous bodily harm N (Jur) → daños mpl físicos graves, lesiones fpl corporales graves

grievous [ˈgriːvəs] adj [loss, blow, damage] → grave, cruel(le)
grievous bodily harm n → coups mpl et blessures fpl

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

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grievous [ˈgriːvəs] adj (pain) → atroce, intenso/a; (injuries, fault, loss) → grave; (blow) → pesante; (news) → triste, doloroso/a; (crime) → atroce, orrendo/a