Grieving

//ˈɡɹiːvɪŋ//

Synonyms for "grieving" (82 found)

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Closest matches (17)

Adjective(2 words)

Adjective(14 words)

blitheless blue bummed out chapfallen cheerless cut up dark dejected depressed desolate despondent disconsolate disheartened dismal

despondent

Strong matches (24)

doleful grief stricken heavy howling lamentation

Adjective(18 words)

doleful dolesome down down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted downsome dull elegiac forlorn gloomy heartsick heartsore heavy-hearted inconsolable jawfallen lachrymose

Adjective(1 words)

grief-stricken

Related words (41)

Adjective(35 words)

lamentful low low-spirited lugubrious lumpish maudlin melancholic melancholy miserable moody mopey mournful plaintive sad saturnine shattered sombre sorrow-ridden sorrowful sorrowsome

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spiritless sullen threnetic threnetical triste tristful uncheerful uncheery unhappy unlively wistful woe woebegone woeful wretched

moaning sad sorrow wailing

Adjective(2 words)

mourning sorrowing

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grief stricken

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grief grievance grieve

form of

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grieve

related to

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grieve

similar

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sorrowful

Sample sentences

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The mother was still grieving over her child's death.

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The grieving woman was consoled by her friends.

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Tom's grieving.

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Paralysed and yet walking, blind and yet standing, deaf and yet hearing, that is a person who is grieving.

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