Definitions for grievous

grievous griev·ous

Spelling: [gree-vuh s]
IPA: /ˈgri vəs/

Grievous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in grievous (egiorsuv).

Definitions for grievous

adjective

  1. causing grief or great sorrow:
  2. flagrant; outrageous; atrocious:
  3. full of or expressing grief; sorrowful:
  4. burdensome or oppressive.
  5. causing great pain or suffering:

Origin of grievous

1250-1300; Middle English grevous Old French grevo(u)s. See grieve, -ous

Examples for grievous

A grievous error it is to suppose that Cupid's artillery is limited to bow and arrows.

That they did not do so was a grievous disappointment from the beginning.

Hildebrand was keenly aware of the grievous failures of Christians under Nazism.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

For three years past, this grievous calamity had been borne.

No longer will we have to endure the grievous injury of that flag popping up as a museum shop chotchke.

Some horror will be too great, some attack too grievous for us to ignore.

The tactics almost certainly have saved untold thousands of innocents from grievous injury, even death.

The cop lay open-eyed with a grievous head wound as Johnson again checked for a pulse.

The country was saddened, moreover, with grievous sicknesses.

Word Value for grievous
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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