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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1. Book of Proverbs:

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

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. Sophocles:

   Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

4. Marcus Aurelius:

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

5. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   So eager to be the history-makers, they failed to be the peacemakers, rushing away from danger can be every bit as unwise as rushing into danger, and the costs have been grievous.