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grievous

adj
/ˈɡɹiː.vəs/

Etymology

From Middle English grevous, from Anglo-Norman grevous, from Old French grever, from Latin gravō (“to burden”). Developed in the 13th century. Equivalent to grief + -ous.

  1. derived from gravō
  2. derived from grever
  3. derived from grevous
  4. inherited from grevous

Definitions

  1. Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.

  2. Serious, grave, dire, or dangerous.

    • As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed, but not dangerous.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grievous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01grievous02pain03torment04torture05infliction06imposition07burden

A definitional loop anchored at grievous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at grievous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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