Grievous /(?)/

Griev·ous

Grievous

a.
  1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
    The famine was grievous in the land.
    — Gen. xii. 10.
    The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.
    — Gen. xxi. 11.
  2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
  3. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.