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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grievous \Griev"ous\, adjective [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. 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. -- {Griev"ous*ly}, adverb -- {Griev"ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grievously
adverb: in a grievous manner; "the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "grievously": abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, brokenheartedly, calamitously, cataclysmically, catastrophically, confoundedly, cruelly, crushingly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deplorably, deucedly, distressfully, distressingly, dolefully, dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, excessively, excruciatingly, exorbitantly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grieffully, harrowingly, heartbreakingly, hellishly, horribly, improperly, inexcusably, infernally, inordinately, intolerably, lamentably, miserably, mournfully, nakedly, openly, painfully, pathetically, piteously, pitiably, plaintively, ruefully, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful, something fierce, sorely, sorrowfully, staggeringly, tearfully, terribly, torturously, tragically, unashamedly, unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, woefully
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