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. Jamie Anderson:

   Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.

2. Dean Koontz:

   I realized I was crying. I bit back my grief, blinked back my tears. As I always do.

3. Honore' de Balzac:

   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

4. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:

   I always try to convey how brave and courageous it is to be responding to a shots fired call. To hear gunshots and run toward the gunshots when most people would run away, our officers consistently respond to these calls even given the circumstances of our grief after losing Ella French.

5. Joseph Addison:

   Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

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