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griefy

adj

Etymology

From grief + -y.

  1. derived from gravis
  2. derived from grief
  3. inherited from greef
  4. suffixed as griefy — “grief + y”

Definitions

  1. Full of grief.

    • But, oh! the doleful sight that then we see: / We turnde our looke, and on the other side / A griefy shape of Famine mought we see, / With greedy lookes, and gaping mouth that cryed, […]
    • It's hard and it's unfair, I know – and when we're still grieving or having a 'griefy' moment, it's even harder.

  2. Troublesome

    Troublesome; liable to give someone grief.

    • It always made the boss focus on you, and that usually meant that a griefy job was more likely to come your way.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for griefy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA