† grievableadj.
Obsolete.
Causing grief or pain; distressing, hurtful, injurious.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [adjective]
eileOE
soreOE
balefulc1200
carefulc1200
aching?c1225
pinefulc1225
sughendc1230
pininga1250
stinginga1250
toughc1275
deringa1325
unsetec1325
unwinc1330
throlya1375
encumbrousc1384
grievable1390
painful1395
plaintfula1400
sweamlya1400
swemandc1400
temptingc1400
importunea1425
sweamfulc1430
penible?a1439
discomfortingc1450
grievingc1450
remordingc1450
sorousc1503
badc1530
paining1532
raw1548
nippingc1550
smartful1556
pinching1563
grievesome1568
griping1568
afflictive1576
pressing1591
boisterous1599
heartstruck1608
carkingc1620
gravaminous1659
vellicating1669
weary1785
traumatizing1970
gut-wrenching1972
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [adjective] > causing sorrow or grief
sorelyc888
sorrowfulOE
sorryOE
yomerlyOE
rueful?c1225
grievous1297
heavyc1374
sada1375
deefulc1380
grievable1390
grieffula1400
grievingc1450
trist?c1450
tristfula1492
dolorousa1500
doly?1553
mournful?1570
griefsome1635
tristifical1656
melancholy1710
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 11 There is a vice full grevable To him, which is therof coulpable.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 426 b/2 The waye is to the right greueable by cause that thou knowest not the contreye.
a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum l. 1089 in Poems (1899) 92 It is of goode and noble discrecion..That can suffer aduer[si]tise greueable.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxiv. 192 Thinke you not that the thinge which is acustomed of long tyme be lesse greuable than that thing which is newly lerned?
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