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

Father Joe himself certainly has the backstory for it, being a war veteran who married an Asian woman who died young and lost his grieving daughter to an overdose. — Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2026

Some needed reliable support; others internalized attention as a loss of privacy while grieving. — Dr. Victor Fornari, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

My therapy dog and I accompanied grieving families to ground zero in the days following the attacks. — Torie Bosch, STAT, 5 Sep. 2026

In the aftermath of the crash, Casas’ family is grieving, according to a GoFundMe page established to help cover unexpected expenses. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

There were personalities and moments that consoled a grieving country. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026

Crump was flanked by three sets of grieving Black families who have all lost their sons in recent months. — Ryan Young, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

The loneliness of the long-distance grieving survivalist is the main preoccupation of The Dog Stars, Ridley Scott’s moody, surprisingly sensitive adaptation of Scott Heller’s 2012 novel. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026

This coming-of-age story centers on a boy’s summer trip to Denmark with his broken and grieving family, a small book focusing on just a few days but covering big emotions. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026