grievous Copy link Outline 1. grăvis, e (burdensome, hard to bear)2. ăcerbus (lit. bitter; hence painfully affecting)3. dūrus (hard, cruel)4. mŏlestus5. atrox, ōcis (fierce, unrelenting) • grievous: 1. grăvis, e (burdensome, hard to bear): a g. wound, g. vulnus, Liv.: to lay one low with g. destruction, aliquem sternere exitio g., Hor.: v. severe. 2. ăcerbus (lit. bitter; hence painfully affecting): g. death, a. mors, Nep.: to render evils greater and more g. by speech, mala majora et acerbiora verbis facere, Cic.: very g. tributes, acerbissima tributa, Cic. 3. dūrus (hard, cruel): g. pains, d. dolores, Virg.: a g. disease, Pl.: g. poverty, d. pauperies, Hor.: v. cruel. 4. mŏlestus: v. troublesome, burdensome. 5. atrox, ōcis (fierce, unrelenting): g. danger, a. periculum, Liv. 33, 5, init.: the g. hour of the blazing Dog-star, a. hora Caniculae flagrantis, Hor. Od. 3, 13, 9.