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grievous

English

  1. 🔊 causing or marked by grief or anguish
    “a grievous loss”
  2. 🔊 of great gravity or crucial import
    “grave responsibilities”
  3. 🔊 causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
    “a dangerous operation”
  4. 🔊 shockingly brutal or cruel
    “murder is an atrocious crime”

Similar words

dangerous grave serious severe life-threatening atrocious flagitious monstrous grave heavy weighty heartbreaking heartrending abominable acute affecting afflictive aggrieved anguished appalling arrant atrocious awful base