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grievously Definition


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grievous
adj
    1. Very severe or painful.
      Thesaurus: painful, dismal, tragic, pathetic, sad, deplorable, heart-rending, pitiful, lamentable.
    2. Causing or likely to cause grief.
      Thesaurus: distressing, disquieting, upsetting, troublesome, disturbing, burdensome, overwhelming.
    3. Showing grief.
    4. Said of a fault, etc: extremely serious.
      Thesaurus: flagrant, atrocious, villainous, heinous, outrageous, appalling, glaring, offensive, shocking, shameful, calamitous, monstrous.
Derivative: grievously
adverb
    Derivative: grievousness
    noun
      Etymology: 13c: from French grevos.



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