GRIEVING Synonyms: 181 Similar and Opposite Words

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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

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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

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

Rachel Hale, USA Today, 23 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

Verb

Emotional footage from the funeral was featured in the Netflix documentary, showing Homer grieving his wife. —

Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026 Our sincere hope is that all who are grieving will feel God’s presence and comfort. —

Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026 The near-future emotional drama stars Ayase Haruka and Yamamoto Daigo as a grieving married couple who receive a humanoid infant robot designed to look like their late son, forcing both to confront their individual paths of silent grief. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2026 Kate, for her part, frets that her grieving husband is lacking male companionship. —

Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Families across the island were searching for loved ones, waiting for answers, and grieving alongside a community hundreds of miles away. —

Jennifer Marcial Ocasio, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026 Job performance can slip when someone is grieving. —

Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 14 June 2026 That does not mean that Spier is immune from grieving. —

Brad Quick, CNBC, 5 June 2026 Again and again, grieving parents described children who continued functioning outwardly — going to school, maintaining friendships, playing sports and making plans for the future — even while privately struggling. —

Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 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