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grievesome

grievesome adjective: marked by grief or grieving; grievous.

Adjective

grievesome (comparative more grievesome, superlative most grievesome)

  1. Marked by grief or grieving; grievous.
    • One instrument is plaintive, grievesome, high pitched: a little boy's whine.1989, Ira Sadoff, Emotional Traffic
    • What hypocrites will be confronted with, in return for their hypocrisy, is a grievesome torment, both in this world and beyond.2004, Harun Yahya, The Hypocrite According To The Qur’an

Forms of grievesome

comparativemore grievesome
superlativemost grievesome
alternative formgrieve-some

Origin of grievesome

From grieve + -some.

Questions about grievesome

What does grievesome mean?
Grievesome means marked by grief or grieving; grievous.
What part of speech is grievesome?
Grievesome is an adjective.

Words near grievesome in the dictionary

  1. griever
  2. grievers
  3. grieves
  4. grieveship
  5. grieveships
  6. grievesome
  7. grievest
  8. grieveth
  9. grievin'
  10. grieving
  11. grievingly

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