Thesaurus / grievous
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synonyms for grievous
- appalling
- atrocious
- calamitous
- damaging
- deplorable
- dire
- dreadful
- egregious
- flagrant
- glaring
- heinous
- intolerable
- lamentable
- monstrous
- outrageous
- shameful
- shocking
- tragic
- unbearable
- afflicting
- agonizing
- dismal
- disquieting
- distressing
- disturbing
- grave
- harmful
- heart-rending
- heavy
- hurtful
- injurious
- mournful
- offensive
- onerous
- oppressive
- pathetic
- pitiful
- sad
- sharp
- sorrowful
- taxing
- tough
- troublesome
- upsetting
- villainous
- weighty
- wounding
See also synonyms for: grievously / grievousness
antonyms for grievous
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Depictions of Indigenous communities in American pop culture have, historically, often added insult to grievous injury.
THE 5 BEST NEW TV SHOWS OUR CRITIC WATCHED IN AUGUST 2021JUDY BERMANAUGUST 31, 2021TIMEThe jihadist military had suffered a grievous blow, but the extremist theology lived on.
AMERICAN LEADERS MADE DEFEAT IN AFGHANISTAN INEVITABLEDAVID FRENCHAUGUST 16, 2021TIMEIt had suffered grievous casualties but its infrastructure and industrial capacity were untouched, and its relative power had never—and has never—been greater.
WHAT AMERICA'S PLUTOCRATS TODAY SHOULD LEARN FROM PAST GENERATIONSZACHARY KARABELLJUNE 9, 2021TIMEWhen his first wife died from tuberculosis, despite his zealous efforts to save her, a grievous Metchnikoff took an overdose of opium, but lived.
THE MAN WHO DRANK CHOLERA AND LAUNCHED THE YOGURT CRAZE - ISSUE 100: OUTSIDERSLINA ZELDOVICHMAY 19, 2021NAUTILUSProsecutors alleged that in June 2011 and April 2012, he unlawfully struck, choked, kicked and pulled the hair of his wife and struck her young son “with a force likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm.”
TED CRUZ’S MISLEADING MEMORIES OF HIS 2013 GUN PROPOSALSALVADOR RIZZOMARCH 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA grievous vision is told me: he that is unfaithful dealeth unfaithfully: and he that is a spoiler, spoileth.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSBut his record shows grievous instability, and Robert probably had sound reasons for putting a period to his dubieties.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONAnd then the old woman found that she had made a grievous mistake, and hastened to repair it.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODAt their presence the people shall be in grievous pains: all faces shall be made like a kettle.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSHere are four distinct predictions; national peculiarity, grievous oppression, universal dispersion and remarkable preservation.
GOSPEL PHILOSOPHYJ. H. WARDWORDS RELATED TO GRIEVOUS
- afflictive
- annoying
- bad
- brutal
- calamitous
- cruel
- dire
- disagreeable
- displeasing
- distasteful
- disturbing
- galling
- grievous
- hard
- harsh
- heartbreaking
- hurtful
- inclement
- intemperate
- intense
- merciless
- offensive
- poignant
- provoking
- rigorous
- rugged
- ruthless
- savage
- severe
- sharp
- stinging
- unpalatable
- unpleasant
- vexatious
- woeful
- afflictive
- awful
- blameworthy
- bummer
- calamitous
- dire
- dirty
- disastrous
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- distressing
- dolorous
- downer
- dreadful
- execrable
- faulty
- godawful
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- horrifying
- intolerable
- lamentable
- lousy
- melancholy
- miserable
- mournful
- opprobrious
- overwhelming
- pitiable
- poor
- regrettable
- reprehensible
- rotten
- sad
- scandalous
- sickening
- stinking
- terrible
- tragic
- unbearable
- unsatisfactory
- woeful
- wretched
- afflictive
- alarming
- appalling
- awful
- black
- calamitous
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- cruel
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- dismal
- distressing
- dreadful
- fearful
- fierce
- frightful
- gloomy
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- horrible
- horrid
- lamentable
- oppressing
- portentous
- redoubtable
- regrettable
- ruinous
- scowling
- shocking
- terrific
- ugly
- unfortunate
- woeful
- afflictive
- alarming
- appalling
- awful
- black
- calamitous
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- cruel
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- dismal
- distressing
- dreadful
- fearful
- fierce
- frightful
- gloomy
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- horrible
- horrid
- lamentable
- oppressing
- portentous
- redoubtable
- regrettable
- ruinous
- scowling
- shocking
- terrific
- ugly
- unfortunate
- woeful
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