Synonyms 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

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

   Antonyms:
   joy, exultation, delight, elation, hilarity

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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

Matched Categories

1. • Negative Stimulus
   • Sorrow

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. griefnoun

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, regret, affliction, distress, tribulation, woe, sadness, bitterness, anguish, misery, agony, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, pain of mind, mental suffering

2. griefnoun

   Synonyms:
   trial, grievance, cause of sorrow

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1. griefnoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "grief":

   sorrow, sadness, pain, mourning, bereavement, heartache, grieving, woe, suffering, spite, anguish, distress, affliction, penalty

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How to use Grief in a sentence?

1. Samuel Johnson:

   While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

2. Herman Melville:

   We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

3. Jessica Coco Garcia:

   He fought long and hard, with the help of all his troops he won many battles but lost the war, we would like to ask the community to continue to lift Memo in prayer and allow us to grief this tremendous loss, we are asking for privacy during this time.

4. Paulina Porizkova:

   To me, my menopause is tied into the grief over my husband, … I felt like somebody just peeled my skin off. Like this process of grieving and heartbreak and betrayal, it stripped me of my Paulina skin, the one that I used to know, the one that used to protect me. I don’t have anything that protects me anymore.

5. Rita Kalnejais:

   I didn't set out to write this story, it sort of just bubbled out of me, i guess my experience is that when people are in grief or having a really intense time they're so funny - like you have to be funny to get through it and it kind of brings you closer together.