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Synonyms for grief
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
grief
Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.
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Synonyms:
affliction, distress, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, woPreposition:
Grief at a loss; for a friend.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
grief
Synonyms:
trouble, tribulation, woe, mourning, regret, affliction, sorrow, sadnessAntonyms:
joy, exultation, delight, elation, hilarity
Princeton's WordNet
grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartednessnoun
intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
Synonyms:
heartbreak, sorrow, heartache, brokenheartednessgrief, sorrownoun
something that causes great unhappiness
"her death was a great grief to John"
Synonyms:
regret, sadness, ruefulness, brokenheartedness, heartache, sorrow, sorrowfulness, heartbreak, rue
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Editors Contribution
entschuldigen
a new approach to what was hastily handled, more inline to the actuality.
an attitudinal difference from her reaction after considering the nuisances
Submitted by greenwriter60 on March 30, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
griefnoun
Synonyms:
sorrow, regret, affliction, distress, tribulation, woe, sadness, bitterness, anguish, misery, agony, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, pain of mind, mental sufferinggriefnoun
Synonyms:
trial, grievance, cause of sorrow
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
griefnoun
Synonyms:
anguish, sorrow, heartbreak, regret, remorse, dolor, misery, heartache, woe, tribulation, rue, affliction, bereavement, trial, adversity, distress, grievance
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1938 | pain | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#4806 | penalty | |
#5907 | suffering | |
#10700 | grief | |
#10782 | spite | |
#11529 | rue | |
#12121 | regret | |
#12669 | distress | |
#12972 | wo | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#18051 | sadness | |
#19478 | mourning | |
#25291 | melancholy | |
#25704 | woe | |
#25754 | bereavement | |
#27991 | anguish | |
#29563 | grieving | |
#32452 | heartbreak | |
#36859 | tribulation | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#39184 | heartache |
How to use grief in a sentence?
It is with profound sadness that we have learned of the death of Kayla Jean Mueller, on behalf of the American people, Michelle and I convey our deepest condolences to Kayla's family - her parents, Marsha and Carl, and her brother Eric and his family - and all of those who loved Kayla dearly. At this time of unimaginable suffering, the country shares in their grief.
Naming the loss is actually an important part of mourning, it also normalizes your loss and your grief. So, kids see that every single person has had somebody who died. And that's incredibly powerful.
Heroes lift us all through their sacrifice, compelling us to be our best through their example, mike Katherman was that hero, performing his noble duty to serve and protect until his last moments. I ask our residents to join in sending our prayers and thoughts to Mike’s wife, his sons, his family and friends, and the entire SJPD family during this time of grief.
As someone who lives with his own grief, I also know that what often matters most to the bereaved is that those we have lost are not forgotten, there is comfort in remembering. In acknowledging that, while taken horribly soon, they lived.
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
Translations for grief
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- حزنArabic
- দুঃখ, বেদনাBengali
- žalCzech
- KummerGerman
- konyifafaEwe
- οδύνη, θλίψη, πόνος, συντριβήGreek
- calamidad, dolor, pesar, pena, sufrimientoSpanish
- leinEstonian
- غمPersian
- suru, murheFinnish
- peine, chagrin, douleurFrench
- mulad, dòlas, bròn, èislean, doilgheasScottish Gaelic
- शोक, दूःख, ग़म, मातमHindi
- gyász, bánatHungarian
- սուգArmenian
- chagrenoIdo
- 悲しみ, 悲哀Japanese
- წუხილიGeorgian
- 고통Korean
- داخKurdish
- dolorLatin
- pāmamaeMāori
- harteleedDutch
- sorgNorwegian
- zmartwienie, smutek, żalPolish
- pesarPortuguese
- tristețe, mâhnire, întristareRomanian
- горе, скорбь, печальRussian
- žiaľSlovak
- sorg, bedrövelseSwedish
- ความเศร้าโศกThai
- гореUkrainian
- غمUrdu
- nỗi buồnVietnamese
- 悲Chinese
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