Synonyms for grievous
ˈgri vəsgriev·ous

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1. grievous

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

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

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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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, joyful, noncritical, good, noncrucial

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"

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

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, noncrucial, good, joyful, noncritical

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   noncritical, unimportant, good, noncrucial, joyful

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   good, joyful, noncrucial, noncritical, unimportant

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1. grievousadjective

   Synonyms:
   distressing, afflictive, afflicting, painful, sad, deplorable, lamentable, hard to bear

2. grievousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hurtful, injurious, baneful, noxious, mischievous, detrimental, destructive, calamitous

3. grievousadjective

   Synonyms:
   atrocious, heinous, flagitious

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1. grievousadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "grievous":

   serious, painful, grave, severe

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How to use grievous in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Timothy Ross:

   In terms of bodily harm, it's probably not grievous, but they've torn up a big chunk of change trying to expand beyond the current (Jetstar Asia) businesses based in Vietnam, which is unprofitable, and Singapore, which occasionally flirts with profitability.

3. Book of Proverbs:

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

4. Marcus Aurelius:

   How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

5. Aeschylus:

   A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.