Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a grievous manner;
- Example: "the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grievous \Griev"ous\, a. [OF. grevous, grevos, LL. gravosus. See
Grief.]
1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to
bear; offensive; harmful.
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The famine was grievous in the land. --Gen. xii.
10.
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The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
--Gen. xxi.
11.
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2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated;
flagitious; as, a grievous sin. --Gen. xviii. 20.
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3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or
affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- Griev"ous*ly, adv. --
Griev"ous*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grievously
adv 1: 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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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