Antonyms for grievous
ˈgri vəsgriev·ous

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1. grievous

   Antonyms:
   joyous, delightful, pleasant, glad, consolatory, grateful, welcome, acceptable, trifling, light, trivial

   Synonyms:
   sad, heavy, afflictive, lamentable, deplorable, sorrowful, painful, burdensome, calamitous, baleful, hurtful, disastrous, unhappy

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1. dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threateningadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, joyful, noncritical, good, noncrucial

   Synonyms:
   severe, sober, serious, wicked, stark, unsafe, terrible, hard, spartan, stern, heavy, unplayful, weighty, monstrous, grave, good, atrocious, sedate, flagitious, life-threatening, dangerous, knockout, austere, heartbreaking, heartrending, solemn

2. grievous, heartbreaking, heartrendingadjective

   causing or marked by grief or anguish

   "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, noncrucial, good, joyful, noncritical

   Synonyms:
   serious, life-threatening, atrocious, flagitious, severe, weighty, grave, heartbreaking, monstrous, heartrending, dangerous, heavy

3. grave, grievous, heavy, weightyadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   noncritical, unimportant, good, noncrucial, joyful

   Synonyms:
   heartrending, sullen, laborious, heavy, overweight, toilsome, intemperate, corpulent, sound, serious, gruelling, dense, grueling, wakeless, with child(p), threatening, solemn, grave, profound, backbreaking, severe, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), great(p), clayey, enceinte, flagitious, monstrous, fleshy, atrocious, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, life-threatening, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, sedate, heartbreaking, sonorous, dangerous, arduous, operose, sober, rotund, heavy(p), big(a), labored, obese, laboured, punishing, cogent, telling, gravid, big(p), lowering, leaden

4. atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrousadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   good, joyful, noncrucial, noncritical, unimportant

   Synonyms:
   frightful, serious, weighty, terrible, monstrous, heinous, flagitious, horrible, heavy, abominable, unspeakable, grotesque, awful, grave, atrocious, ugly, life-threatening, dreadful, horrifying, dangerous, heartbreaking, severe, painful, heartrending

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1. grievousadjective

   Synonyms:
   afflictive, distressing, deplorable, lamentable, painful, heinous, atrocious, flagitious, outrageous, flagrant, egregious, nefarious, plaintive, pitiful

How to use grievous in a sentence?

1. Aeschylus:

   A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

2. Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama:

   As a nation, we are facing an ordeal of the most grievous kind, we must stick together as a people and look after each other.

3. Book of Proverbs:

   A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

4. Scott Morrison:

   He is a free citizen, he can say whatever he likes, but that doesn't mean he can't have regard to the grievous offence this would have caused to people whose homes have been burnt down.

5. Deputy Raymond Mattiucci:

   I can’t tell you how many times [Scott and Nash] flat out said we got your back, i made a grievous error believing them.

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