Synonyms for Grievous

Synonyms for "grievous" (237 found)

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Closest matches (48)

distressing grave heartbreaking painful abominable acute affecting afflictive aggrieved anguished appalling arrant atrocious awful base beastly beneath contempt bitter black blameworthy

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bleak brutal burdensome calamitous careworn cataclysmal cataclysmic catastrophic cheerless comfortless contemptible damaging dangerous demanding deplorable depressing

Adjective(10 words)

sad atrabiliary atrabilious austere dangerous dangersome dark demure deplorable depressing

Adjective(2 words)

atrocious dangerous

Related words (118)

loathsome lousy lugubrious major monstrous mournful moving nasty nefarious noisome notorious obnoxious odious offensive onerous oppressive outrageous pathetic piteous pitiable

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Adjective(39 words)

miserable mournful parlous pathetic pathetisad periculous perilous pitiable pitiful pitisome precarious regrettable risky rueful saddening sage saturnine sedate serious sober

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solemn solemncholy somber sombre sorrowful staid stern sweer thoughtful tragic uncool unhappy unsafe upsetting weightsome weighty wicked woebegone woeful

Adjective(4 words)

monstrous serious severe weighty

Related word relations

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Synonyms

7 entries

distressing flagitious grave heartbreaking life threatening painful troublesome

derived

4 entries

grievous bodily harm grievously grievousness overgrievous

etymologically related_to

1 entries

grieve

related to

9 entries

dangerous dire grave grief grievance grievously pain serious sorrow

similar

6 entries

critical evil important of import sorrowful

Translations

25 translations across 12 languages.

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Ancient Greek

2 entries

λυπηρός adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
μογερός adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)

Bulgarian

4 entries

мъчителен adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
печален adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
сериозен adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)
скръбен adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

嚴重 /严重 adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

嚴重 /严重 adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

Dutch

1 entries

pijnlijk adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)

Faroese

2 entries

álvarsamur adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)
álvarsligur adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

French

1 entries

grave adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

German

4 entries

ernst adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)
ernsthaft adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)
schmerzlich adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
schwerwiegend adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

Polish

2 entries

bolesny adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
poważny adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

Romanian

1 entries

dureros adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)

Russian

3 entries

мучи́тельный adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
печа́льный adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
тяжкий adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

Swedish

2 entries

allvarlig adj (causing grief, pain or sorrow)
allvarlig adj (serious, grave, dire or dangerous)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Mr T (19 years old) avoided conviction for murder, but was found guilty of grievous bodily harm for having intentionally caused wounds.

Source: tatoeba (509116)

You know Grievous Bodily Harm? Just how bad do the injuries have to be before it counts as Grievous?

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This is a grievous mistake.

Source: tatoeba (4501043)

His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked, as though his death struggle had been a grievous one.

Source: tatoeba (6303830)

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