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.
The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
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.