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

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

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. William Shakespeare:

   When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind oppress, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

2. Justin Salinger:

   When you have a miscarriage, there's this idea that it's not as real for the man because we're not growing the baby inside of us, we're conditioned not to express emotion and to give our wives space to feel grief and pain. The truth is that we're hurting, too.

3. Charles Kingsley:

   Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

4. Bidwell Smith:

   There was a lot of sadness, but they know we don’t live forever. Angela Pelosi-Harrison was a Christian and so Angela Pelosi-Harrison told all the kids Angela Pelosi-Harrison was headed for heaven, it seemed to put all of them at ease to think that Angela Pelosi-Harrison would live on happily elsewhere. Tap into Outside Support Turning to family and friends is valuable for the grieving adult child, but Bidwell Smith also suggests seeing a therapist who specializes in grief or using support groups to help cope with the loss.She also recommends the book.

5. Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quotes came from Eragon.:

   I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes… but I won't let anyone use me against my will.

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