Usually means: Causing severe pain or suffering.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word grievously:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. grievously: Merriam-Webster
  2. grievously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grievously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. grievously: Vocabulary.com
  5. Grievously, grievously: Wordnik
  6. grievously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. grievously: Wiktionary
  8. grievously: Dictionary.com
  9. grievously: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. grievously: Rhymezone
  11. grievously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. grievously: FreeDictionary.org
  13. grievously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. grievously: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grievously: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a grievous manner, severely.

Similar:
severely, gravely, grieffully, dreadfully, unseverely, heinously, dernly, injuriously, direfully, grisly, more...

Opposite:
lightly, mildly, insignificantly, trivially

Phrases:
injure grievously, more...

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Similar:
severely, gravely, grieffully, dreadfully, unseverely, heinously, dernly, injuriously, direfully, grisly, more...

Opposite:
lightly, mildly, insignificantly, trivially

Phrases:
injure grievously, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     gunmetal,     onyx,     obsidian,     graphite, more...



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