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troublesome
Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
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  1. Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
  2. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
dismal
Causing gloom or misery; depressing
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  1. Causing gloom or misery; depressing
  2. Depressed; miserable
  3. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
tragic
Having the elements of tragedy; involving death, grief, or destruction:
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  1. Having the elements of tragedy; involving death, grief, or destruction:
  2. Relating to or characteristic of dramatic tragedy or tragedies:
  3. Writing or performing in tragedy:
pathetic
Arousing or deserving of scornful pity.
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  1. Arousing or deserving of scornful pity.
  2. Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion:
  3. Expressing, arousing, or intended to arouse pity, sorrow, sympathy, or compassion; pitiful
severe
Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance:
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  1. Stern or forbidding, as in manner or appearance:
  2. Very dangerous or harmful; grave or grievous:
  3. Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
hurtful
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
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  1. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
  2. Causing hurt; specif., wounding the feelings
  3. Causing pain or suffering, especially of a psychological nature.
sharp
Marked by keenness and accuracy of perception:
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  1. Marked by keenness and accuracy of perception:
  2. Harsh, biting, or severe
  3. Intense; severe:
villainous
Highly unpleasant or annoying:
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  1. Highly unpleasant or annoying:
  2. Of, like, or characteristic of a villain; evil; wicked
  3. Obnoxious, offensive or reprehensible in nature or behaviour; nefarious
flagrant
(Archaic) Flaming; blazing
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  1. (Archaic) Flaming; blazing
  2. Glaringly bad; notorious; outrageous
  3. Conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible:
heinous
(Informal) Very unappealing; ugly:
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  1. (Informal) Very unappealing; ugly:
  2. Outrageously evil or wicked; abominable
  3. Wicked; abominable:
deplorable
Wretched; bad:
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  1. Wretched; bad:
  2. Worthy of severe condemnation or reproach:
  3. That can or should be deplored; regrettable, wretched, very bad, etc.
doleful
Causing grief:
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  1. Causing grief:
  2. Filled with or expressing grief; mournful.
  3. Full of or causing sorrow or sadness; mournful; melancholy
dolorous
(Archaic) Painful
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  1. (Archaic) Painful
  2. Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
  3. Very sorrowful or sad; mournful
lamentable
(Now Rare) Expressing sorrow; mournful
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  1. (Now Rare) Expressing sorrow; mournful
  2. To be lamented; grievous; deplorable; distressing
  3. Inspiring or deserving of lament or regret; deplorable or pitiable.
mournful
Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy:
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  1. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy:
  2. Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
  3. Of or characterized by mourning; feeling or expressing grief or sorrow
regrettable
Eliciting or deserving regret:
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  1. Eliciting or deserving regret:
  2. To be regretted; unfortunate
rueful
Feeling or showing regret, esp. in an abashed way
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  1. Feeling or showing regret, esp. in an abashed way
  2. Inspiring pity or compassion.
  3. Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
sad
(Informal) Very bad; deplorable
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  1. (Informal) Very bad; deplorable
  2. Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing:
  3. Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness:
sorrowful
Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
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  1. Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow.
  2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
  3. Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
woeful
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
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  1. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
  2. Affected by or full of woe; mournful:
  3. Pitiful; wretched; miserable
dangerous
Involving or filled with danger; perilous.
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  1. Involving or filled with danger; perilous.
  2. Being able or likely to do harm.
  3. Full of danger; likely to cause injury, pain, etc.; unsafe; perilous
grave
Requiring serious thought; important; weighty
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  1. Requiring serious thought; important; weighty
  2. Fraught with danger or harm:
  3. (--- Theol.) So evil as to cause spiritual death; mortal
serious
Concerned with important rather than trivial matters:
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  1. Concerned with important rather than trivial matters:
  2. Giving cause for concern; dangerous
  3. Not joking or trifling:
severe
Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
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  1. Unsparing, harsh, or strict, as in treatment of others:
  2. Serious or grave; forbidding, as in expression or manner
  3. Serious or grievous
Find another word for grievous. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for grievous, like: disquieting, upsetting, troublesome, dismal, tragic, pathetic, severe, hurtful, sharp, villainous and flagrant.

Sentence Examples

  • No war was ever more grievous to freedom and civilization.

  • This was a grievous blow to William, but his courage did not fail.

  • His lengthy explanations are the more grievous because he insists on the same points in several of his books.

  • Between 374 and 377 we read of grievous complaints of injustice and extortion perpetrated under legal forms, the result probably of the recent panic, and pointing to an increasing weakness and timidity at headquarters.

  • On the 7th of May 1451 Waynflete, from "le peynted chambre" in his manor house at Southwark, asserting that his bishopric was canonically obtained and that he laboured under no disqualification, but feared some grievous attempt against himself and his see, appealed to the protection of the pope.

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