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Grievous

//ˈɡɹiː.vəs//

Synonyms for "grievous" (175 found)

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Informal (36)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

hard sharp rank fell bitter

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

base black gross keen major

Adj, intj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, intj, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

acute ugly shocking

Adj, adv, slang(5 words)

rotten serious terrible beastly pitiful

Adj, noun, slang(2 words)

Adj, verb, slang(2 words)

Adj, name, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, adv, noun, slang(2 words)

Adj, slang(4 words)

wretched painful lousy dangerous

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

Noun, slang(1 words)

General use (139)

Adjective(12 words)

heavy grave severe serious monstrous atrocious weighty dangerous flagitious heartbreaking heartrending life-threatening

Adj, noun, verb(7 words)

foul moving taxing galling dismaying damaging saddening

Adj, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, name(2 words)

Adj, noun(18 words)

offensive vile dreary dismal fatal unfortunate scurvy deplorable bleak horrible fetid squalid despicable reprehensible exigent unpalatable depressive heartbreaking

Adjective(75 words)

monstrous fulsome atrocious brutal outrageous weighty flagrant sordid scandalous egregious abominable enormous noisome poignant repulsive shameful obnoxious unclean infamous oppressive

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Adj, adv, name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, adv(2 words)

notorious horrid

Adj, verb(12 words)

disgusting exacting distressing demanding appalling depressing affecting anguished grieved discomforting aggrieved sorrowed

Adj, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

Prep_phrase(1 words)

beneath contempt

Phrase(1 words)

Noun, verb(2 words)

sorrowing wounding

grief stricken dumb with grief in grief plunged in grief

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