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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. 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.

    See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

    Synonyms:
    affliction, distress, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

    Preposition:
    Grief at a loss; for a friend.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.5 / 2 votes

  1. grief

    Synonyms:
    trouble, tribulation, woe, mourning, regret, affliction, sorrow, sadness

    Antonyms:
    joy, exultation, delight, elation, hilarity

Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 2 votes

  1. grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartednessnoun

    intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

    Synonyms:
    heartbreak, sorrow, heartache, brokenheartedness

  2. grief, 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 Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 2 votes

  1. griefnoun

    Synonyms:
    anguish, sorrow, heartbreak, regret, remorse, dolor, misery, heartache, woe, tribulation, rue, affliction, bereavement, trial, adversity, distress, grievance

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How to use grief in a sentence?

  1. John Schnatter:

    The agency was promoting that vocabulary … They pushed me. And it upset me, it’s caused a lot of grief for my community, for my university.

  2. Mahabharata:

    Such deeds as thou with fear and grief Wouldst, on a sick-bed laid, recall, In youth and health eschew them all, Remembering life is frail and brief.

  3. Kimi Nolte:

    Trial has a way of bringing everything right back up again. Their grief is going to feel refreshed -- like they hit a refresh button on their internet browser.

  4. Elizabeth Gaskell:

    My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  5. Nicolas Chamfort:

    Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. -- About Paris


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