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aggrieved

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,784 of 15,258neutral

Aggrieved means feeling that you have been treated unfairly. An aggrieved customer, look aggrieved, feel aggrieved about it.

It describes the feeling rather than the justice of it, which is why it can be used drily — a player looking aggrieved after a fair decision. In law an aggrieved party is one with standing to complain. Note grieve beneath it.

Definitions of aggrieved

  1. 1adjectiveaggrievedFeeling that you have been treated unfairly.C1

    “The aggrieved customer demanded to speak to the manager.”

aggrieved is a feeling of grievance.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *gʷreh₂-

  2. Latin

    gravare — to weigh down

  3. Old French

    agrever

  4. Middle English

    agreven

  5. English

    aggrieve

  6. English, today

    aggrieved

Built from

  • grever · Old French — to burden, injure
  • gravis · Latin — heavy

aggrieve comes from Middle English agreven, from Old French agrever; a + grever (“to burden, injure”), from Latin gravare (“to weigh down”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grieve, and compare with aggravate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

Practise this word

aggrieved in the wild

  • Appeals court decisions are subject to a petition by an aggrieved party for review by the Oregon Supreme Court.

    Oregon Court of Appeals

  • The Scottish Rugby Union was still aggrieved at the situation caused by the Gould Affair and decided not to participate in a match against Wales.

    1898 Home Nations Championship

  • The Democratic People's Party is a Nigerian political party founded in 2006 by an aggrieved faction of the All Nigeria Peoples Party.

    Democratic People's Party (Nigeria)

  • The aggrieved workers of the party founded it on October 22, 2014.

    Pakistan Peoples Party Workers

  • An aggrieved employee can only file a PAGA lawsuit after the LWDA elects not to pursue its own action against the employer.

    Private Attorneys General Act

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the grever family

grievegrievousgrievance

aggrieved — used about once every 16,706 pages · #12,784 · point at the bar for the others