grievous
adjective/ˈɡriːvəs/
/ˈɡriːvəs/
(formal)- very serious and often causing great pain or difficulty
- He had been the victim of a grievous injustice.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGrievous is used with these nouns:- error
- sin
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French greveus, from grever ‘burden, encumber’, based on Latin gravare, from gravis ‘heavy, grave’.
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