say it: GREE-vuh-slee
grievously is an adverb meaning "in a grievous manner". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grievously come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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