ETYM Latin dolorosus, from dolor: cf. French douloureux. Related to Dolor.
Showing sorrow; SYN. dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping.
ETYM Old Fren. grevous, grevos, Late Lat. gravosus. Related to Grief.
Causing or marked by grief or anguish; SYN. heartbreaking, heartrending.
Very severe or painful; causing grief or suffering, heinous. grievous bodily harm, Law, crime of inflicting serious physical injury on another person. (abbr. GBH).
1. Causing physical or psychological pain
2. Requiring effort or exertion
1. Experiencing or showing or causing sorrow or unhappiness
2. Expressive of sorrow
3. Exemplary of misfortune
Painfully; grievously, mournfully
In a grievous manner.
1. In or as if in pain; SYN. sorely.
2. Unpleasantly; SYN. distressingly.