Synonyms for Grievous:

• adj.

  •adverse (adjective)
  • catastrophic,
  • perilous,
  • unlucky,
  • burdensome,
  • difficult,
  • untoward,
  • distressful,
  • adverse,
  • inauspicious,
  • miserable,
  • unfriendly,
  • troublesome,
  • detrimental,
  • disastrous,
  • unpropitious,
  • opposing,
  • unfavorable,
  • unfortunate,
  • antipathetic.
  •all (adjective)
  • severe,
  • life-threatening,
  • dangerous,
  • grievous.
  •bitter (adjective)
  • un pleasant,
  • in-tenser,
  • un-pleasant,
  • in-tensest,
  • in tense,
  • in clement,
  • in-temperate,
  • in-tense,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • un-palatable,
  • in tenser,
  • un palatable,
  • in-clement,
  • dis agreeable,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • dis pleasing,
  • in temperate.
  •calamitous (adjective)
  • more blighting,
  • ruinous,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un fortunate,
  • un-favorable,
  • most blighting,
  • un favorable.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • importunate,
  • more backbreaker,
  • most backbreaker.
  •deplorable (adjective)
  • wretched,
  • godawful,
  • opprobrious,
  • scandalous.
  •dire (adjective)
  • de pressing,
  • more oppressing,
  • re doubtable,
  • most scowling,
  • portentous,
  • more scowling,
  • re-doubtable,
  • de-pressing,
  • most oppressing.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • heartbreaking.
  •distasteful (adjective)
  • dis tasteful,
  • un likable,
  • most savorless,
  • un appetizing,
  • un-savorier,
  • de testable,
  • in-sipid,
  • un-likable,
  • un savoriest,
  • un desirable,
  • dis-likable,
  • most dislikable,
  • more unlikable,
  • yucky,
  • dis likable,
  • un-appetizing,
  • un-desirable,
  • un savory,
  • un-savory,
  • objectionable,
  • grodier,
  • more dislikable,
  • more savorless,
  • un-savoriest,
  • yickier,
  • un-inviting,
  • in sipid,
  • most unlikable,
  • yickiest,
  • dis-tasteful,
  • un inviting,
  • de-testable,
  • un savorier.
  •dolorous (adjective)
  • most dolent,
  • more dolent,
  • more dolorific,
  • more heart rending,
  • most dolesome,
  • most heart-rending,
  • more dolesome,
  • most heart rending,
  • heart rending,
  • most dolorific,
  • more heart-rending.
  •dreadful (adjective)
  • beastlier,
  • beastliest,
  • more shuddersome,
  • horrendous,
  • most shuddersome.
  •egregious (adjective)
  • heinous,
  • egregious.
  •exacting (adjective)
  • by book,
  • hyper critical,
  • more nit picking,
  • un sparing,
  • more nit-picking,
  • unsparing,
  • most nit picking,
  • ex-acting,
  • hyper-critical,
  • nit picking,
  • most nit-picking,
  • stern,
  • un-sparing,
  • ex acting.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • more superincumbent,
  • most superincumbent,
  • super incumbent,
  • superincumbent,
  • super-incumbent.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • unspeakable,
  • grisly.
  •galling (adjective)
  • galling,
  • Harassing,
  • Plaguing.
  •grave (adjective)
  • killing,
  • fellest,
  • more killing,
  • feller,
  • most killing.
  •great (adjective)
  • voluminous,
  • in-ordinate,
  • most humongous,
  • over size,
  • bullest,
  • most oversize,
  • over-size,
  • gigantic,
  • ex tensive,
  • pro longed,
  • more oversize,
  • pro-longed,
  • fatter,
  • ex tended,
  • most mondo,
  • ex-tended,
  • more humongous,
  • more mondo,
  • greater.
  •gross (adjective)
  • un-mitigated,
  • un-qualified,
  • un mitigated,
  • un qualified.
  •hard (adjective)
  • coldblooded,
  • hard as nails,
  • harder,
  • hardboiled.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • effortful,
  • Acroamatic,
  • Heightened.
  •heightened (adjective)
  • in-tensive,
  • ter,
  • te,
  • in tensive.
  •important (adjective)
  • major.
  •lamentable (adjective)
  • more god awful,
  • god awful,
  • most hurting,
  • most god awful,
  • most god-awful,
  • more god-awful,
  • more hurting.
  •major (adjective)
  • life and death,
  • out-standing,
  • stellar,
  • pre-eminent.
  •mortal (adjective)
  • most death dealing,
  • more mortiferous,
  • more ending,
  • deathdealing,
  • most mortiferous,
  • remorseless,
  • more pestilent,
  • most ending,
  • most death-dealing,
  • more deathdealing,
  • more death-dealing,
  • most deathdealing,
  • death dealing,
  • more death dealing,
  • murderous.
  •mournful (adjective)
  • de pressed,
  • more anguished,
  • sombrest,
  • most anguished,
  • de-pressed,
  • be-reft,
  • full sorrow,
  • most grieving,
  • be reft,
  • sombrer,
  • more grieving,
  • grief stricken.
  •oppressive (adjective)
  • heavy handed,
  • dis heartening,
  • most depressive,
  • most confining,
  • more depressive,
  • more ironhanded,
  • heavyhanded,
  • more headache,
  • most headache,
  • over bearing,
  • more disheartening,
  • dis-heartening,
  • in-human,
  • most ironhanded,
  • most disheartening,
  • Over-bearing,
  • in human,
  • more confining.
  •painful (adjective)
  • biting,
  • Torturing.,
  • bothersome,
  • throbbing,
  • torturing,
  • cutting,
  • extremely bad,
  • Irksome,
  • unbearable,
  • annoying,
  • smarting,
  • anguishing,
  • excruciating,
  • cruel,
  • agonizing,
  • crushing,
  • aching,
  • grueling,
  • Cramping,
  • chafing,
  • piercing,
  • wrenching,
  • offensive,
  • insufferable,
  • inflaming,
  • stinging,
  • acute,
  • odious,
  • harrowing,
  • unpleasant,
  • stabbing,
  • aggravating,
  • tormenting,
  • disagreeable,
  • sore,
  • withering,
  • Besetting,
  • Gnawing,
  • arduous,
  • trying,
  • hurtful,
  • irritating.
  •piteous (adjective)
  • more commiserable,
  • most entreating,
  • more beseeching,
  • more supplicating,
  • most beseeching,
  • most supplicating,
  • most imploring,
  • more imploring,
  • most commiserable,
  • more entreating.
  •plaintive (adjective)
  • more beefing,
  • most grousing,
  • wailing,
  • more wailing,
  • most beefing,
  • out sorts,
  • most wailing,
  • more grousing,
  • most bellyaching,
  • more bellyaching.
  •regrettable (adjective)
  • dis-appointing,
  • dis appointing,
  • un-happy,
  • un happiest,
  • un happy,
  • illadvised,
  • un happier.
  •sad (adjective)
  • dis-composing,
  • up setting,
  • dis composing,
  • most dejecting,
  • most discomposing,
  • tear jerking,
  • up-setting,
  • more discomposing,
  • tearjerking,
  • more dejecting.
  •serious (adjective)
  • of consequence,
  • playing hard ball,
  • sobering,
  • unamusing,
  • no joke,
  • strictly business,
  • smoking,
  • out for blood,
  • Operose,
  • no laughing matter,
  • unhumorous.
  •sorrowful (adjective)
  • heavy hearted,
  • sick heart,
  • singing blues.
  •taxing (adjective)
  • more enervating,
  • Sapping,
  • most stressful,
  • most enervating,
  • most sapping,
  • more sapping,
  • more stressful.
  •tough (adjective)
  • in-tractable,
  • un yielding,
  • no piece of cake,
  • up hill,
  • un-yielding,
  • in tractable,
  • no piece cake,
  • up-hill.
  •tragic (adjective)
  • de solate,
  • ill starred,
  • ill fated,
  • more crushing,
  • illfated,
  • illstarred,
  • de-solate,
  • most crushing.
  •uncomfortable (adjective)
  • in commodious,
  • more ill-fitting,
  • more torturing,
  • un comfortable,
  • most ill fitting,
  • illfitting,
  • most ill-fitting,
  • more ill fitting,
  • more illfitting,
  • most torturing,
  • most illfitting,
  • ill fitting,
  • un-comfortable,
  • in-commodious.
  •unfair (adjective)
  • un-scrupulous,
  • dis-creditable,
  • un-fair,
  • most unsporting,
  • most cheating,
  • un duest,
  • un fairer,
  • un rightful,
  • one sided,
  • dis-honest,
  • dis criminatory,
  • un-due,
  • more unsporting,
  • in-equitable,
  • un fairest,
  • un-duest,
  • onesided,
  • dis honest,
  • un-principled,
  • un-sporting,
  • un-justifiable,
  • un scrupulous,
  • un lawful,
  • un principled,
  • un due,
  • more cheating,
  • most unrightful,
  • un-lawful,
  • un-duer,
  • un-warranted,
  • more unrightful,
  • un reasonable,
  • un-fairest,
  • dis creditable,
  • un ethical,
  • un-rightful,
  • uncalledfor,
  • un fair,
  • un-ethical,
  • un-fairer,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un sporting,
  • in-excusable,
  • in equitable,
  • in excusable,
  • dis-criminatory,
  • un justifiable.
  •woeful (adjective)
  • Racked,
  • more tortured,
  • more racked,
  • most racked,
  • most agonized,
  • heartsick,
  • more agonized,
  • most tortured.

• n.

  •
  • desperate,
  • extreme,
  • rigorous.
  •
  • help.
  •atrocious (noun)
  • flagrant,
  • outrageous,
  • villainous.
  •critical (noun)
  • critical.
  •distressing (noun)
  • disquieting,
  • disturbing,
  • upsetting.
  •evil (noun)
  • evil.
  •flagitious (noun)
  • flagitious.
  •grievous (noun)
  • important,
  • wicked,
  • atrocious,
  • of import,
  • monstrous,
  • heartrending.
  •mournful (noun)
  • pathetic,
  • dismal.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rueful.
  •
  • sad,
  • doleful.
  •injurious
  • harmful.
  •Other relevant words:
  • eagerly,
  • Ill-conditioned,
  • arrant,
  • sternly,
  • indecent,
  • cruelly,
  • solidly,
  • funereal,
  • adjourn,
  • frightening,
  • backbreaking,
  • wounding,
  • grief-stricken,
  • poignant,
  • labored,
  • fell,
  • notorious,
  • tragical,
  • cordially,
  • rough,
  • labor,
  • horrid,
  • sincerely,
  • cardinal,
  • downhearted,
  • burning,
  • sorrowing,
  • toil,
  • trouble,
  • foetid,
  • malefic,
  • abdicate,
  • hapless,
  • touching,
  • clayey,
  • devilish,
  • iniquitous,
  • laborious,
  • punitive,
  • alarming,
  • douse,
  • unsafe,
  • retire,
  • disoblige,
  • disengage,
  • dread,
  • malevolent,
  • harsh,
  • disgusting,
  • pitiable,
  • rotund,
  • brutal,
  • toughly,
  • maleficent,
  • ferociously,
  • Jeopardizing,
  • paltry,
  • stark,
  • careworn,
  • sound,
  • squalid,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • recede,
  • mean,
  • discommode,
  • secede,
  • strongly,
  • comfortless,
  • imperfect,
  • corvee,
  • sullen,
  • sharp,
  • sepulchral,
  • leave,
  • plangent,
  • badly,
  • harshly,
  • despicable,
  • extremely,
  • sorely,
  • overpowering,
  • painfully,
  • dismaying,
  • weighed down,
  • unpalatable,
  • dark,
  • excessively,
  • dispiriting,
  • menacing,
  • distressingly,
  • unsupportable,
  • dreary,
  • fierce,
  • forlorn,
  • grotesque,
  • drudgery,
  • lugubrious,
  • rank,
  • expectant,
  • tearful,
  • afflictive,
  • Fiendish,
  • ghastly,
  • terrific,
  • repulsive,
  • accented,
  • ill-omened,
  • strong,
  • horrible,
  • sharply,
  • heartily,
  • fleshy,
  • blameworthy,
  • worst,
  • gruelling,
  • deep,
  • fatal,
  • nasty,
  • colossal,
  • rotten,
  • sordid,
  • racking,
  • disconsolate,
  • scary,
  • keen,
  • enormously,
  • Discomforting,
  • stirring,
  • lowering,
  • loathsome,
  • depressing,
  • risky,
  • wickedly,
  • achy,
  • stringent,
  • toilsome,
  • aggrieve,
  • Grieved,
  • Wreckful,
  • obese,
  • remove,
  • torturous,
  • unclean,
  • nociceptive,
  • discouraging,
  • enceinte,
  • Doloroso,
  • Direly,
  • down,
  • quit,
  • steadfastly,
  • depress,
  • labour,
  • lousy,
  • consummate,
  • resolutely,
  • execrable,
  • barbaric,
  • damaging,
  • unhealthy,
  • insupportable,
  • terribly,
  • outrageously,
  • cloggy,
  • Afflicting,
  • Sorrowed,
  • sonorous,
  • main,
  • resign,
  • strict,
  • hateful,
  • reprehensible,
  • heartfelt,
  • hardhanded,
  • seriously,
  • gravid,
  • gloomy,
  • austere,
  • dense,
  • Deteriorated,
  • devastating,
  • joyless,
  • cataclysmal,
  • sadden,
  • shabby,
  • blue,
  • punishing,
  • awful,
  • securely,
  • acutely,
  • hurting,
  • draconian,
  • go,
  • lumbering,
  • frightful,
  • lachrymose,
  • bad,
  • aggrieved,
  • heavily,
  • dejected,
  • scurvy,
  • soundly,
  • infamous,
  • destructive,
  • firmly,
  • depressed,
  • cogent,
  • detestable,
  • sorry,
  • below par,
  • onerous,
  • affecting,
  • melancholy,
  • filthy,
  • obnoxious,
  • significant,
  • abominable,
  • sensitive,
  • inhuman,
  • Draconic,
  • vile,
  • unforgivable,
  • abnormally large,
  • diabolical,
  • keenly,
  • terrible,
  • bitterly,
  • schlock,
  • in grief,
  • poignantly,
  • Feared,
  • too bad,
  • gravely,
  • beneath contempt,
  • overwhelming,
  • troubling,
  • black,
  • glaring,
  • vehemently,
  • impenetrable,
  • out-and-out,
  • nagging,
  • intolerable,
  • severely,
  • withdraw,
  • piercingly,
  • ruthful,
  • unendurable,
  • grim,
  • repressive,
  • shocking,
  • fearsome,
  • abusive,
  • lower,
  • base,
  • worthless,
  • overweight,
  • vicious,
  • DEADWEIGHT CARGO,
  • basic,
  • emotive,
  • appalling,
  • raw,
  • moving,
  • agonizingly,
  • poisonous,
  • corpulent,
  • gross,
  • hopeless,
  • mourning,
  • tyrannical,
  • cataclysmic,
  • violently,
  • morose,
  • foul,
  • tender,
  • ill-fated,
  • unskillful,
  • contemptible,
  • cheerless,
  • fiercely,
  • sober,
  • unnaturally,
  • nefarious,
  • solemn,
  • horrifying,
  • unthinkable,
  • intense,
  • Griefful,
  • shoddy,
  • depart,
  • sedate,
  • impossible,
  • noisome,
  • distressed,
  • fulsome,
  • telling,
  • heart-breaking,
  • injurious,
  • cumbersome,
  • ill-starred,
  • hardly,
  • demonic,
  • earnestly,
  • Star-crossed,
  • profound,
  • affective,
  • hideous,
  • fetid,
  • grieve,
  • injured,
  • troublous,
  • beastly,
  • bleak,
  • huge,
  • shameful,
  • threatening,
  • saddening,
  • enormous,
  • unhappy,
  • emotional,
  • disheartening,
  • woebegone,
  • horrific,
  • exhausting.

Paraphrases for Grievous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    serious.
  • Proper noun, singular
    serious.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    serious.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    egregious, heinous, deplorable, horrendous, unfortunate, lamentable, pathetic, odious, disastrous, embarrassing, regrettable, agonizing, huge, dangerous, great, devastating, appalling.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    gravest, painful, dire, distressing, tremendous, terrible, tragic, enormous, sad.

Antonyms for Grievous:

• adj.

  • severe, painful; serious
    concealed, favorable, magnificent, little, blessed, good, wonderful, delightful, hidden.
  • Other antonyms:
    encouraging, cheering, soft, happy, peaceful, heartwarming, cozy, balmy, mild, sweet, friendly, safe, noncrucial, pleasing, rewarding, lucky, bearable, restful, gratifying, noncritical, reposeful, snug, advantageous, beneficial, comfortable, luxurious, harmless, sustainable, nonhazardous, acceptable, moderate, innocuous, supportable, hospitable, survivable, endurable, comforting, painless, allowable, sufferable, relaxing, joyful, satisfying, livable, agreeable, genial, calm, innocent, reasonable, pleasant, tolerable, heartening, easy, fortunate, temperate, inspiring, light, unthreatening, clement, gentle.