grievous

Meaning

1. Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.
2. Serious, grave, dire, or dangerous.

Synonyms

sad

☹️

sorrowful

grave

🪦

serious

doleful

heavy

mournful

arduous

miserable

flagitious

distressing

pathetic

tough

exacting

severe

regretful

monstrous

atrocious

woeful

bad

👎

weighty

bleak

painful

very severe

causing grief

big

hard

heartbreaking

heartrending

saddening

seriously

severely

hurtful

challenging

dangerous

lamentable

life-threatening

deplorable

tragic

depressed

troublous

burdensome

melancholic

awkward

powerful

regrettable

rueful

ruinous

sesquipedalian

shrewd

sober

solemn

sombre

sore

sorry

touching

troublesome

unappetizing

uncommunicative

afflicted

unfriendly

unpronounceable

unutterable

vicious

wary

wicked

wretched

unappetising

sorrow-stricken

full of grief

unfounded

afflictive

alarming

angry

😠

baleful

bashful

bitter

black

blasting

Byzantine

depressing

destructive

difficult

disastrous

dismal

displeasing

dolorous

downcast

drear

dreary

evil

evil-minded

fatal

fateful

fierce

formidable

gloomy

gross

heinous

hurting

ill

🤢

internecine

lugubrious

major

malefic

maleficent

melancholy

moving

nasty

no-nonsense

oppressive

pathetical

pernicious

pitiful

Translations

zwaar

pijnlijk

grave

grave

smartelijk

pénible

doloroso

kränkend

bedroevend

schmerzlich

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹiː.vəs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: grevous

In summary

From Middle English grevous, from Anglo-Norman grevous, from Old French grever, from Latin gravō (“I burden”). Developed in the 13th century. Equivalent to grief + -ous.