Antonyms for Grief
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. grief

   Antonyms:
   joy, exultation, delight, elation, hilarity

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

Matched Categories

1. • Negative Stimulus
   • Sorrow

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartednessnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   heartbreak, sorrow, heartache, brokenheartedness, grief

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, grief

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. griefnoun

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

How to use Grief in a sentence?

1. John McCain:

   There's one man who has made pain in my life a living hell and another man who has literally shepherded me through the grief process.

2. Shahadat Hossain:

   I don't know when our family will be able to come out of this grief.

3. Gregory Nunn:

   Grief, and an estate, is joy understood,

4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Grief, after all, is like smoking in a damp country — what was at first a necessity becomes afterwards an indulgence.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   Joe Biden is Joe Biden and Vice President, like millions of others, I admire Joe Biden devotion to family, Joe Biden grace in grief, Joe Biden grit and determination on behalf of the middle class, and Joe Biden unyielding faith in America's promise.

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