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
• despondent
• pathetic
• suffering
• dejected
• bleeding
• keening
• miserable
• downcast
• darkening
• dispirited
• brokenhearted
• careworn
• moody
• desolate
• crestfallen
• woebegone
• forlorn
• groaning
• moaning
• heartsore
• howling
• gloomy
• glum
• dirgelike
• black
• downhearted
• morose
• gray
• bawling
• sullen
• piteous
• low
• 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
• glorying
• cheering
• blissful
• hopeful
• buoyant
• jolly
• optimistic
• blithe
• lighthearted
• mirthful
• ecstatic
• rapturous
• euphoric
• giddy
• blithesome
• heady
• jocund
• rhapsodic
• elated
• exhilarated

grieving

2 of 3

noun

as in mourning

Related 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

Dissimilar Words

• rejoicing
• exultation
• smiling
• laughing
• cheering

grieving

3 of 3

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of grieving

Noun

Or that most people know him only as a grieving spouse, and he was elected out of sympathy? — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

This horrendous act leads a grieving but determined Ruthye to Kara Zor-El, dead set on exacting revenge for the killings and using our Supergirl to help get her to the culprit. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 June 2026

Sallie West has since opened her front door to the grieving. — Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

Traumatized into silence, the de facto orphan stays living with the kindly but guilt-ridden, grieving and impecunious Hiroshi. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 June 2026

The grieving in the sense of mourning and crying and all that might stop, but the pain is going to be there. — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026

Is this part of a process of grieving or one of denial? — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026

The search for answers is one step in a long grieving process. — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026

Hughes remembered as a spiritual leader While there have been public honors for Hughes – his smiling yearbook photo was displayed on the scoreboard overlooking the football field – much of the grieving in this community of about 200,000 people is playing out in private. — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026

Verb

Meanwhile, Wells’ father said his grieving family has received online attacks — including a sudden barrage of negative reviews against his wife, a nurse practitioner, and vitriol from strangers. — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

After the hearing, a relative emphasized that the woman asked to leave was grieving. — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Backlash for grieving on TikTok Both Rose and Satori have been vocal online about their experiences, which have received positive and negative reactions. — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

Such rituals strengthen collective memory and help a grieving community process and find some measure of closure. — Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026

Chesapeake Life Center group for individuals grieving death of spouse or life partner. — Jamie Chapman, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026

Nearly all cited the number of people killed, while large majorities pointed to orphaned children, mothers who lost children, grieving families and victims whose bodies remained trapped beneath collapsed buildings. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026

Sharing the deeply personal moment on TikTok unexpectedly opened another chapter in her grieving process. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026

That changed the trajectory for Soulm8te, a spinoff set in the M3GAN universe starring Lily Sullivan as Sara, an AI-powered companion for a grieving widower, David, played by David Rysdahl. — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026