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grievous
Synonyms and Antonyms of grievous
- the months of chemotherapy seemed almost as grievous an affliction as the cancer itself
- the death of a spouse can be a grievous loss from which one never recovers
- a grievous wound that requires a doctor's immediate attention
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
- the grievous cost of the war in human lives weighed heavily on the president's mind
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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