grievous
/GREE-vus/adjectivevery severe or serious
“The report found grievous lapses in oversight.”
- Synonyms
- grave, dire, egregious
- Antonyms
- slight, trivial
- Memory hook
- grievous: heavy enough to grieve over.
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