- causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry.
- characterized by great pain or suffering; severe: grievous bodily harm;a grievous injury.
- having serious effects; grave: a grievous mistake;grievous faults.
- extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, brutal, etc.; atrocious: a grievous offense against morality;grievous crimes.
- burdensome; oppressive: to incur grievous expenses.
- very severe or painful
- very serious; heinous
- showing or marked by grief
- causing great pain or suffering
