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

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

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

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

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. Michael Dorris:

   At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds.

2. Jean de La Bruyère:

   Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

3. Ajab Singh:

   One daughter was lying dead in one room and the wedding of another was going on in another room. We have never experienced such mixed emotions, the grief over her death and the happiness of the wedding has yet to sink in.

4. Katy Seppi:

   There's a common belief that anyone can have a baby if they want it enough, hope enough, and never give up, it just isn't true, and leads to a lot of misunderstanding and dismissal of the grief you're left with when you realize you have to let go of your dream of parenthood.

5. Jolie Pitt:

   This film is at the core about grief, and that grief was from the loss of my mother, but in the end, I think this film is also about learning how to move past it, by The Sea.