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GREEV-uh-s/ˈɡriːvəs/

Grievous means very severe or serious, especially of harm or a fault: a grievous error, grievous harm. Grief (already in the dictionary) is the noun of sadness; inventing an n is still a methods fail, not a rounding.

Meaning

Very severe or serious, especially of harm or a fault (from grief, already in the dictionary).

Examples

• “An invented n is a grievous methods fail, not a rounding.”
• “Severe is already in this course. Grave (already in this course) is the close twin. Rounding is a slogan. A raw count in the cell is methods. Put the number in; then polish the abstract if the codebook still allows it.”

Good to know

Very severe or serious. Noun: grief (already in the dictionary). Rounding ≠ a true n.

Near in meaning

severe, grave, serious

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