Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Grievous

Grievous , adjective

[Old French grevous, grevos, Late Latin gravosus. See Grief.]

1.
Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
The famine was grievous in the land. — Gen. xii. 10
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. — Gen. xxi. 11
2.
Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin. — Gen. xviii. 20
3.
Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.