- Types Of Speech
- You can use grievous as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Grievous
- A 2 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters e, g, i, o, r, s, u, and v, 4 consonants, 4 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters ev. Grievous starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters g, gr, gri, grie, griev, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, vous, evous, ..
- Definition
- Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Grievous is set as a sat word that starts with g, ends with s, 2 syllables, 4 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Grievous in Pig Latin is said as "ievousgray or ievousgrway".
- Unigram
- g | r | i | e | v | o | u | s
- Bigram
- gr | ri | ie | ev | vo | ou | us
- Trigram
- gri | rie | iev | evo | vou | ous
- Quadrigram
- grie | riev | ievo | evou | vous
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;
"a dangerous operation";
"a grave situation";
"a grave illness";
"grievous bodily harm";
"a serious wound";
"a serious turn of events";
"a severe case of pneumonia";
"a life-threatening disease" - shockingly brutal or cruel;
"murder is an atrocious crime";
"a grievous offense against morality";
"a grievous crime";
"no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" - of great gravity or crucial import;
requiring serious thought;
"grave responsibilities";
"faced a grave decision in a time of crisis";
"a grievous fault";
"heavy matters of state";
"the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" - causing or marked by grief or anguish;
"a grievous loss";
"a grievous cry";
"her sigh was heartbreaking";
"the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abandoned | left desolate or empty "an abandoned child" "their deserted wives and children" "an abandoned shack" "deserted villages" |
| Abominable | exceptionally bad or displeasing "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
| Aboriginal | a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived |
| About | (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct "lasted approximately an hour" "in just about a minute" "he''s about 30 years old" "I''ve had about all I can stand" "we meet about once a month" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundre |
| Abrasive | a substance that abrades or wears down |
| Abrupt | surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner "an abrupt reply" |
| Absolute | something that is conceived to be absolute something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control "no mortal being can influence the absolute" |
| Absolutist | one who advocates absolutism |
| Absolutistic | pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism |
| Abstainer | a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages |
View all cognitive synonyms for Grievous
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Grievous | causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm "a dangerous operation" "a grave situation" "a grave illness" "grievous bodily harm" "a serious wound" "a serious turn of events" "a severe case of pneumonia" "a life-threatening disease" |
View English words with the unique letters used in grievous. Words With The Letters Egiorsuv
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Critical | marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude" |
Grievous Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With G
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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