1. Adjective
Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
2. Adjective
Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
3. Adjective
Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.
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