Word Meanings - GRIEVOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous;

Additional info about word: GRIEVOUS

1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin. Gen. xviii. 20. 3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- Griev"ous*ly, adv. -- Griev"ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRIEVOUS)

• Hard
• Firm
• dense
• solid
• compact
• unyielding
• impenetrable
• arduous
• difficult
• grievous
• distressing
• rigorous
• oppressive
• exacting
• unfeeling
• stubborn
• harsh
• forced
• constrained
• inexplicable
• flinty
• severe
• obdurate
• hardened
• callous
• Sad
• Heavy
• grave
• dull
• sorrowful
• woe-begone
• calamitous
• dismal
• doleful
• mournful
• gloomy
• dejected
• depressed
• cheerless
• serious
• downcast
• melancholy
• saturnine
• Sore
• Painful
• irritated
• susceptible
• excoriated
• raw
• scarified
• ulcerous
• afflictive
• heavy
• burdensome
• Troublesome
• Tiresome
• irksome
• tedious
• laborious
• importunate
• vexatious

Related words: (words related to GRIEVOUS)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• SCARIFIER
  The instrument used for scarifying. (more info) 1. One who scarifies.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• IMPENETRABLENESS
  The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• SCARIFICATOR
  An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• OVERRIGOROUS
  Too rigorous; harsh.