GRIEVING Synonyms: 181 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in weeping

expressing or suggesting mourning the grieving sobs of the widow could be heard throughout the funeral service

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noun

as in mourning

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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

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Recent Examples of grieving

Noun

Here’s what to know about health anxiety, collective grieving and how to manage those fears. —

Rachel Hale, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026 Roger was ninety-two, grieving and undoubtedly frightened. —

Margaret Moorman, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026 Dad did not come home to join us in our grieving. —

John Wrory Ficklin, Time, 11 Feb. 2026 Gordon explained in a recent interview with 9News that the grieving of his brother’s death in 2024 has affected his body physically. —

Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026 Finch said on Sunday that the Timberwolves pushed for the postponement to respect the public grieving process. —

Dave Campbell, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026 There are no plates to record, no registration to trace, and no insurance to compensate the grieving. —

Sameer Butt, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026 The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. —

Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025 For Chris, there's hope amid the grieving. —

Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025

Verb

Angela, grieving for her family and friends gone in the war, smuggles goods along the front lines to make a living. —

Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026 Kay Scarpetta is, like many protagonists of these sorts of stories, a remarkable and mythical investigator, returning to her old job as chief medical examiner of the commonwealth of Virginia in order to spend more time with her grieving niece, Lucy (DeBose), who has lost her wife. —

Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026 As resistance from the conventional deathcare industry mounts, Micah is forced to pivot, learning that caring for grieving families is just as essential as building a sustainable business. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026 As Louisville Public Media reported, several Kentucky politicians have issued statements mourning the death of Pennington and expressing sympathy for his grieving family. —

Npr Staff, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026 And that’s what many grieving and sentimental customers came to order this week when the deli quietly reopened. —

Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026 In 2009, employees Burr Oak Cemetery employees were accused of digging up old graves, emptying their remains in various locations around the grounds, then reselling the burial plots to newly grieving families. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026 Last year, Razani's artistic performance and installation in front of the art institute honored grieving families in Iran who are seeking justice. —

Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026 The wounded were brought to a hospital in the central West Bank city of Nablus, where The Associated Press filmed men grieving over the body of one of the brothers. —

ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for grieving

Adjective

And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.

— David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.

— Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021