Synonyms of grieving

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adjective

as in weeping

expressing or suggesting mourning

the grieving sobs of the widow could be heard throughout the funeral service

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weeping
• funeral
• heartbroken
• mournful
• bitter
• wailing
• aching
• sad
• anguished
• melancholy
• sorrowful
• sorry
• tearful
• crying
• unhappy
• agonized
• depressed
• regretful
• lamentable
• plaintive
• doleful
• somber
• lugubrious
• dolorous
• funereal
• woeful
• rueful
• morbid
• deploring
• plangent
• bemoaning
• bewailing
• dark
• bleak
• dolesome
• inconsolable
• disconsolate
• heartsick
• elegiac
• pathetic
• despondent
• suffering
• dejected
• keening
• bleeding
• miserable
• downcast
• darkening
• dispirited
• brokenhearted
• careworn
• moody
• desolate
• crestfallen
• woebegone
• groaning
• forlorn
• moaning
• heartsore
• howling
• black
• gloomy
• glum
• dirgelike
• elegiacal
• downhearted
• morose
• gray
• sombre
• bawling
• grey
• sullen
• low
• piteous
• cheerless
• wretched
• low-spirited
• pessimistic
• joyless
• triste
• comfortless
• dismal
• saturnine
• dreary
• yammering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• happy
• joyful
• triumphant
• smiling
• delighted
• laughing
• cheerful
• rejoicing
• bright
• cheery
• joyous
• exulting
• merry
• encouraging
• cheering
• glorying
• blissful
• hopeful
• buoyant
• jolly
• optimistic
• blithe
• lighthearted
• mirthful
• ecstatic
• rapturous
• euphoric
• giddy
• blithesome
• heady
• jocund
• rhapsodic
• elated
• exhilarated
• rhapsodical

grieving

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noun

as in mourning

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mourning
• suffering
• weeping
• tears
• sorrowing
• sob
• regret
• agonizing
• cry
• lamentation
• grief
• sorrow
• protest
• lament
• hand-wringing
• outcry
• keen
• heartache
• wail
• anguish
• heartbreak
• groan
• plaint
• howl
• moan
• woe
• complaint
• cri de coeur
• dolor

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejoicing
• exultation
• smiling
• laughing
• cheering

grieving

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verb

present participle of grieve

as in aching

to feel deep sadness or mental pain

we all grieved over the lost cat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mourning
• aching
• sighing
• sorrowing
• suffering
• crying
• sobbing
• agonizing
• weeping
• hurting
• bleeding
• anguishing
• eating one's heart out
• groaning
• tearing one's hair
• tormenting
• smarting
• moaning
• lamenting
• torturing
• bewailing
• longing (for)
• pining (away)
• blubbering
• deploring
• bawling
• howling
• bemoaning
• wailing
• racking
• languishing
• regretting
• yammering
• keening
• ruing
• yowling
• taking on

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• laughing
• rejoicing
• cheering
• beaming
• exulting
• glorying
• delighting
• triumphing
• ravishing
• comforting
• crowing
• consoling
• assuring
• reassuring
• sympathizing
• soothing
• joying
• commiserating
• solacing