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Antonyms for grievous
ˈgri vəsgriev·ous
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term grievous.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
grievous
Antonyms:
joyous, delightful, pleasant, glad, consolatory, grateful, welcome, acceptable, trifling, light, trivialSynonyms:
sad, heavy, afflictive, lamentable, deplorable, sorrowful, painful, burdensome, calamitous, baleful, hurtful, disastrous, unhappy
Princeton's WordNet
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, noncrucialSynonyms:
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, solemngrievous, 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, noncriticalSynonyms:
serious, life-threatening, atrocious, flagitious, severe, weighty, grave, heartbreaking, monstrous, heartrending, dangerous, heavygrave, 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, joyfulSynonyms:
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, leadenatrocious, 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, unimportantSynonyms:
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
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
grievousadjective
Synonyms:
afflictive, distressing, deplorable, lamentable, painful, heinous, atrocious, flagitious, outrageous, flagrant, egregious, nefarious, plaintive, pitiful
How to use grievous in a sentence?
A number of things had gone on which I can't talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American people's confidence in the justice system, and then the capper was -- and I'm not picking on the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who I like very much -- but her meeting with President Clinton on that airplane was the capper for me, and I then said, you know what, the department cannot, by itself, credibly end this.
Petitioning to ask the High Court for review was the right thing to do because of the precedent set in this case by the majority opinion of Pennsylvania Supreme Court that prosecutors' statements in press releases now seemingly create immunity, pennsylvania Supreme Court can right what we believe is a grievous wrong.
Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
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.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#155 | good | |
#613 | light | |
#685 | welcome | |
#4670 | acceptable | |
#4672 | glad | |
#5538 | pleasant | |
#9031 | grateful | |
#12556 | trivial | |
#12582 | delightful | |
#23655 | joyful | |
#30157 | joyous | |
#32026 | unimportant | |
#40529 | grievous | |
#69037 | trifling | |
#193812 | noncritical | |
#322813 | consolatory |
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