Grievous vs Hellish - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between grievous and hellish

is that grievous is causing grief, pain or sorrow while hellish is causing pain, discomfort or distress.

* greuous (obsolete) * grievious (less common outside dialects)

(en adjective)

Causing grief, pain or sorrow.

* 1883 ,

As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed but not dangerous.

Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.

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(en adjective)

Causing pain, discomfort or distress.

I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

* awful * horrible * terrible * nightmarish * infernal

* heavenly