grievous | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grave, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: atrocious, flagitious, monstrous |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, heavy, weighty |
(adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending |
grievously | (adverb) in a grievous manner | - |
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mischievous | (adjective) deliberately causing harm or damage | - |
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(adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
mischievously | (adverb) in a disobedient or naughty way | Synonyms: badly, naughtily |
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mischievousness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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(noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, naughtiness |
(noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality |
nervous | (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system | Synonyms: neural |
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(adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky |
(adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: aflutter |
(adjective) easily agitated | - |
(adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet |
nervously | (adverb) in an anxiously nervous manner | - |
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(adverb) with nervous excitement | - |
nervousness | (noun) a sensitive or highly strung temperament | - |
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(noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, jumpiness, restiveness |
(noun) an uneasy psychological state | Synonyms: nerves |
rendezvous | (noun) a meeting planned at a certain time and place | - |
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(noun) a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex | Synonyms: tryst |
(noun) a place where people meet | - |
(verb) meet at a rendezvous | - |
voussoir | (noun) wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault | - |
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