griev´ous|ness

griev´ous|ness
griev|ous «GREE vuhs», adjective.
1. hard to bear; causing great pain or suffering; severe: »

grievous cruelty.

SYNONYM(S): distressing.
2. very evil or offensive; outrageous; flagrant; atrocious: »

Murder is a grievous crime in most societies. Wasting food when people were starving was a grievous wrong. It was a grievous fault And grievously hath Caesar answered it (Shakespeare).

SYNONYM(S): heinous.
3. causing grief: »

a grievous loss.

4. full of grief; showing grief: »

a grievous cry.

griev´ous|ly, adverb.
griev´ous|ness, noun.

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  • Grievousness — Grievous Griev ous, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See {Grief}.] 1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. [1913 Webster] The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. [1913 Webster] The thing …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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