[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

grievous \griev"ous\, a. of. grevous, grevos, ll. gravosus. see
   grief.
   1. causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to
      bear; offensive; harmful.
      1913 webster

            the famine was grievous in the land.  --gen. xii.
                                                  10.
      1913 webster

            the thing was very grievous in abraham's sight.
                                                  --gen. xxi.
                                                  11.
      1913 webster

   2. characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated;
      flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --gen. xviii. 20.
      1913 webster

   3. full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or
      affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- griev"ously, adv. --
      griev"ousness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
grief griev"ously griev"ousness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

grievous
     adj 1: 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" syn: dangerous,
             grave, serious, severe, life-threatening
     2: causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a
        grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the
        heartrending words of rabin's granddaughter" syn: heartbreaking,
         heartrending
     3: 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" syn: grave, heavy, weighty
     4: 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" syn: atrocious,
         flagitious, heinous, monstrous
see also:
dangerous grave serious severe life-threatening heartbreaking 
heartrending heavy weighty atrocious flagitious 
heinous monstrous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

157 moby thesaurus words for "grievous":
   abominable, acute, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished,
   appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly,
   beneath contempt, bitter, black, blameworthy, bleak, brutal,
   burdensome, calamitous, careworn, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
   catastrophic, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible, damaging,
   dangerous, demanding, deplorable, depressing, depressive,
   despicable, destructive, detestable, dire, disastrous,
   discomforting, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, distasteful,
   distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic,
   dolorous, dreadful, dreary, dumb with grief, egregious, enormous,
   exacting, exigent, fatal, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul,
   fulsome, galling, grave, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, gross,
   harmful, hateful, heartbreaking, heartrending, heavy, heinous,
   horrible, horrid, hurtful, in grief, infamous, intolerable,
   joyless, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lugubrious, major,
   monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious,
   obnoxious, odious, offensive, oppressive, outrageous, painful,
   pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, plangent,
   plunged in grief, poignant, rank, regrettable, reprehensible,
   repulsive, rotten, rueful, ruinous, sad, saddening, scandalous,
   schlock, scurvy, serious, severe, shabby, shameful, sharp,
   shocking, shoddy, sordid, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing,
   squalid, superincumbent, taxing, tearful, terrible, too bad,
   touching, tough, tragic, ugly, unbearable, unclean, uncomfortable,
   unfortunate, unpalatable, vile, villainous, weighty, woebegone,
   woeful, worst, worthless, wounding, wreckful, wretched

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