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Definition: Grievously |
GrievouslyAdverb1. In a grievous manner; "the resolute but unbroken Germany, grievously wounded but far from destruction, was able to lay the firm foundations for military revival". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grievously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Greatness | Painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grievously |
| English words defined with "grievously": afflicted, Afflicting ♦ Dernly ♦ stricken. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grievously": Syrophenician. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grievously": Dernly. (references) |
| "Grievously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Grievously" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
grievously | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "grievously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me trishtim (ruefully), me hidhërim. (various references) | |
Arabic | بحزن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жално, печално (dismally, sadly, sorrowfully). (various references) | |
Chinese | 悲伤地. (various references) | |
Czech | bolestnì. (various references) | |
German | schmerzliche (dolorously, painfully), kränkend (aggrieving, grieving, grievous, mortifying, offending, slighting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | súlyosan (heavily, onerously, sorely, to scathe), keservesen (bitterly, dearly, hard, the hard way). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 憂い悩む (to be grievously troubled). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うれいなやむ (to be grievously troubled). (various references) | |
Korean | 슬"게 (sadly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ievouslygray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gravemente (gravelly, mortally, severely, sorely), severamente (close, hardly, harshly, pointedly, roundly, severely, sorely, strictly), penosamente (cattily, with effort), dolorosamente (painfully), atrozmente. (various references) | |
Romanian | grav (austere, bad, badly, critical, grave, gravely, important, low, low-pitched, matronal, serious, solemn, stern, weighty), serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, matronal, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted), dureros (aching, afflicting, distressing, dolorous, grievous, heart-breaking, painful, sad, smart, sorrowful), cu cruzime (oppressively). (various references) | |
Russian | горестно. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bolno (painfully). (various references) | |
Spanish | crasamente. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сумно (gloomily, joylessly, lamentably, moodily, mournfully, regrettably, ruefully, sadly), тужливо, важко (arduously, awkwardly, hard, weightily), жахливо (almighty, appallingly, awfully, beastly, bitter, devilish, dogged, dreadfully, fearfully, ferociously, frightfully, horribly, lamentably, sadly, woefully), болісно (cruelly, distressingly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai legwn kurie o paiV mou beblhtai en th oikia paralutikoV deinwV basanizomenoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et dicens Domine puer meus iacet in domo paralyticus et male torquetur |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & þus cweðende. Drihten. min cnapelið on mine huse lame. & mid yfele ge-þred. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And seide, Lord, my childe lijth in the hous sijk on the palesie, and is yuel turmentid. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Sayinge: Master my seruaunt lyeth sicke at home of ye palsye and ys greuously payned. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick with the palsy, grievously tormented. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 8, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | nga nag-ingon, "Ginoo, sa balay atua ang akong binatonan nga giparalisis, nagahigda nga nagaantus sa hilabihan gayud." |
| Croatian | "Gospodine, sluga mi leži kod kuæe uzet, u strašnim mukama." |
| Danish | "Herre! min Dreng ligger hjemme værkbruden og, pines svarlig." |
| Dutch | En zeggende: Heere! mijn knecht ligt te huis geraakt, en lijdt zware pijnen. |
| Finnish | ja sanoi: "Herra, minun palvelijani makaa kotona halvattuna ja on kovissa vaivoissa". |
| French | le priant et disant: Seigneur, mon serviteur est couché la maison, atteint de paralysie et souffrant beaucoup. |
| German | und sprach: HERR, mein Knecht liegt zu Hause und ist gichtbrüchig und hat große Qual. |
| Haitian Creole | Mèt, domestik mwen an kouche lakay, li paralize nèt, l'ap soufri anpil. |
| Hungarian | És ezt mondván: Uram, az én szolgám otthon gutaütötten fekszik, és nagy kínokat szenved. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Bapak," kata perwira itu, "pelayan saya sakit di rumah. Ia berbaring lumpuh di tempat tidur dan menderita sekali." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | sambil berkata, "Ya Tuhan, budak sahaya terbaring di rumah dengan sakit tepok, dan teramat sangat sengsaranya." |
| Italian | «Signore, il mio servo giace in casa paralizzato e soffre terribilmente». |
| Latvian | Sacîdams: Kungs, mans kalps, triekas skarts, guï mâjâs un ïoti cieð. |
| Manx Gaelic | As gra, Hiarn, ta my er-mooinjerey ny lhie ching ec y thie jeh'n chingys-craaee, ayns stayd feer treih. |
| Maori | Ka mea, E te Ariki, ko taku pononga kei te whare e takoto ana, he pararutiki, e ngaua kinotia ana. |
| Norwegian | Herre! min dreng ligger verkbrudden hjemme og pines forferdelig. |
| Portuguese | Senhor, o meu criado jaz em casa paralítico, e horrivelmente atormentado. |
| Rumanian | wi -I zicea: ,,Doamne, robul meu zace kn casq slqbqnog, wi se chinuiewte cumplit.`` |
| Russian | зПУ П"Й! УМХЗБ НПК МЕЦЙФ "ПНБ Ч ТБУУМБ'МЕОЙЙ Й ЦЕУФПЛП УФТБ"БЕФ. |
| Shuar | "Uuntá, Tímiayi. Winia uchir tampemaru Jeá tepes ti wait Ajáa tepawai" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | diciendo: --Señor, mi criado está postrado en casa, paralítico, y sufre terribles dolores. |
| Swahili | akisema, "Mheshimiwa, mtumishi wangu amelala nyumbani, mgonjwa wa kupooza na anaumwa sana." |
| Swedish | och sade: "Herre, min tjänare ligger därhemma lam och lider svårt." |
| Uma | na'uli': "Tuama, batua-ku peda' lia-i ria hi tomi. Ntora turu-i-wadi, pai' ntora ntodohaka-i." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Grievously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: greviously, griveously. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grievously" (pronounced grē"vuslē) |
| 5 | -v u s l ē | nervously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, jealously, judiciously, laboriously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, harmlessly, harmoniously, hellaciously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-o-r-s-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: grievous, rivulose, rugosely, virgules. | |
-3 letters: elusory, glories, glovers, grovels, ligures, livyers, lousier, louvers, louvres, silvery, soilure, surveil, velours, vigours, virgule, voguers, voyeurs. | |
-4 letters: erugos, ervils, eulogy, givers, glover, gloves, gluers, gluier, gorily, grilse, grisly, grouse, grovel, groves, gruels, guiles, guiros, gyrose, ligers, ligure, livers, livery, livres, livyer, logier, lories, louies, louver, louvre, lovers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-o-r-s-u-v-y" | |
+3 letters: oversupplying, vertiginously. | |
+5 letters: cytomegalovirus. | |
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