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grievous
Synonyms and Antonyms of grievous
1
difficult to endure
2
hard to accept or bear especially emotionally
3
involving potential loss or injury
dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertain
distressing, sickening, unpleasant
adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilent
deadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous
4
of a kind to cause great distress
affecting, doleful, moving, piteous, poignant, ruthful, touching
awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, severe, terrible
alarming, disturbing, perturbing, traumatic, unsettling
crushing, excruciating, harrowing, horrible, horrifying, intolerable, overwhelming, shocking, sickening, unbearable
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