Synonyms for mourning
ˈmɔr nɪŋ, ˈmoʊr-mourn·ing

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1. mourning

   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, grief, melancholy, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. mourning, bereavementnoun

   state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

   Synonyms:
   lamentation, bereavement

   Antonyms:
   joyful

2. lamentation, mourningadjective

   the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief

   Synonyms:
   plaint, lamentation, lament, wail, bereavement

   Antonyms:
   joyful

3. bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)adjective

   sorrowful through loss or deprivation

   "bereft of hope"

   Antonyms:
   joyful

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1. • Sorrow

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1. mourningnoun

   Synonyms:
   lamentation, sorrow, grief

2. mourningnoun

   Synonyms:
   weeds, symbol of sorrow

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1. mourningnoun

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, grief, bereavement, weeds

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1. List of paraphrases for "mourning":

   haddad, bereavement, grieving, grief, al-haddad, weeping, sorrowing, condolences, crying, mourn, duel, hadad, sorrow, blacksmith

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1. Kisha James:

   We want to educate people so that they understand the stories we all learned in school about the first Thanksgiving are nothing but lies. Wampanoag and other Indigenous people have certainly not lived happily ever after since the arrival of the Pilgrims, to us, Thanksgiving is a day of mourning, because we remember the millions of our ancestors who were murdered by uninvited European colonists such as the Pilgrims. Today, we and many Indigenous people around the country say, ‘No Thanks, No Giving.’.

2. Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald:

   This is a difficult time for our entire team and we are mourning this loss and are still processing this terrible tragedy. We are also hopeful for the safe return of their daughter, Jayme, and are keeping her and the James Closs family in our thoughts.

3. Chaillot Breaux:

   We were in mourning when we lost Mom and we lost our favorite city and it was just a lot of loss. A lot.

4. Faith Soloway:

   Making it into a musical in some ways just rescued it from being overly serious, we didn't want to tell a story of Maura's death that was a complete mourning, that was a sad farewell.

5. Israel Police Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld:

   Unfortunately, within the West Bank area we have seen Palestinians celebrating this attack, meanwhile here in Israel... we will be mourning for a week over the people that were lost -- and we are talking about four innocent people that were shot to death, literally shot and killed at close range for no reason whatsoever.