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grievousadjective difficult to endurethe months of chemotherapy seemed almost as grievous an affliction as the cancer itself bitter, brutal, burdensome, cruel, excruciating, grim, hard, hardhanded, harsh, heavy, inhuman, murderous, onerous, oppressive, rough, rugged, searing, severe, stiff, tough, trying austere, bleak, comfortless, discomforting, forbidding, inhospitable, spartan, uncomfortablebiting, inclement, intemperate, wildrigorous, strict, stringentagonizing, heartbreaking, heartrending, painful, wretchedcrushing, grinding, overwhelming, wearinginsufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurableharrowing, tortuousbad, disagreeable, hostile, unfriendly, unpleasant easy, light, soft comfortable, cozy, luxurious, snugagreeable, friendly, genial, hospitable, pleasantpeaceful, relaxing, reposeful, restfulbearable, endurable, painless, tolerablebalmy, calm, clement, gentle, mild, moderate, temperate hard to accept or bear especially emotionallythe death of a spouse can be a grievous loss from which one never recovers afflicting, agonizing, bitter, cruel, excruciating, galling, harrowing, harsh, heartrending, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturous insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportableappalling, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, ghastly, horrible, miserable, nasty, rotten, severe, terrible, vile, wretchedacute, extreme, intense, piercing gratifying, pleasing, sweet bearable, endurable, supportable, sustainable, tolerablelivable(also liveable), sufferable, survivableacceptable, allowable, reasonable involving potential loss or injurya grievous wound that requires a doctor's immediate attention dangerous, grave, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, unhealthy, unsafe, venturesome dicey, insecure, precarious, treacherous, uncertainultrahazardouschance, haphazard, randomdistressing, sickening, unpleasantugly, wickedadverse, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, malignant, nasty, noxious, pernicious, pestilentdeadly, deathly, destructive, dire, fatal, fateful, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous harmless, innocent, innocuous, nonhazardous, nonthreatening, safe, unthreatening advantageous, beneficial, goodultrasafe of a kind to cause great distressthe grievous cost of the war in human lives weighed heavily on the president's mind deplorable, distressful, distressing, heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, regrettable, tragic(also tragical), unfortunate, unlucky, woeful troublesome, vexatiousaffecting, doleful, moving, piteous, poignant, ruthful, touchingawful, dire, dreadful, fearful, severe, terriblealarming, disturbing, perturbing, traumatic, unsettlingcrushing, excruciating, harrowing, horrible, horrifying, intolerable, overwhelming, shocking, sickening, unbearablemiserable, pitiful, sad, wretchedcalamitous, disastrouspainful, raging, sharp gratifying, pleasing, rewarding, satisfyingcomforting, encouraging, hearteningcheering, heartwarming, inspiringfortunate, happy, lucky in the 13th century |