Synonyms for grief
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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.

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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

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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  

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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

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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. Seattle Children Hospital:

   We are incredibly sorry for the hurt experienced by these families and regret that recent developments have caused additional grief. Out of respect for privacy, we do not intend to share details about our patients or comment on specific cases or legal action.

2. 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.

3. Mary RobinsonFor Robinson:

   Naming the loss is actually an important part of mourning, it also normalizes your loss and your grief. So, kids see that every single person has had somebody who died. And that's incredibly powerful.

4. Herman Rowland:

   The gentleman involved in this accident was a passionate person, always ready to lend a hand and we shared the same deep rooted love of history, there are no words to describe the grief we are experiencing.

5. Purvi Raniga:

   Grief changes us forever. Rather than keeping that darkness in our heart, we have to learn to fill that place with beautiful memories forever.