gravis (heavy, oppressive, and hence painful; e.g., illness, wound): atrox (atrocious; e.g., crime, bloodshed): foedus (horrible): molestus (hard to be borne): magnus (great): durus (hard): iniquus (not just, pressing, heavy): acerbus (bitter, harsh, painful; e.g., death): very grievous, peracerbus: to utter grievous complaints, graviter or invidiose queri aliquid; against anybody, graviter accusare aliquem: it is a grievous thing (that), valde dolendum est: nothing more grievous could have happened to me, nihil acerbius, or nihil ad dolorem acerbius mihi accidere potuit: to inflict grievous pain on anybody, quam acerbissimum dolorem inurere alicui: grievous times (or state of things), res miserae; tempora misera or dura; iniquitas temporum: a grievous taxation, or grievous taxes, tributa acerba: the injustices or iniquities became so grievous, that, etc., tanta erat vis injuriarum, ut, etc.: that is very grievous to me, hoc valde me urit, pungit, mordet.