grief-stricken
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6.7
- adjective
- /ˈɡrifˌstrɪkən/
- After losing her husband, she was completely grief-stricken and struggled to cope with the world around her.
- grief-stricken mother
- grief-stricken families
- grief-stricken father
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Watch on YouTubeThey're anxious, they're grief stricken, they're resentful, they're angry.
- They're anxious, they're grief stricken, they're resentful, they're angry.
- You know, essentially enough time to leave me, like so many, fairly grief stricken by her loss and and wanting to honor her life and her legacy.
- My mother was grief stricken and terrorized and full of war and worry about what's going to happen to us and just the the task of surviving each day.
- This is one of probably the most stressful, awful, humiliating, painful, grief stricken things that has happened to this person.
Examples
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Grief-stricken, Murasaki spends much time in religious devotions, praying for her beloved's speedy return.
Academic text (1992) -
Grief-stricken, terrified... the huddled masses turn for comfort... to their devout spiritual leader... who... ever so humbly... assumes the throne... with the queen by his side.
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Our hearts go out - to their grief-stricken parents.
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I mean, I was grief-stricken.
Academic text (2006) -
So the family, of course, is completely grief stricken, but also really angry.
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After all, I'm just as grief-stricken no matter where I am.
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The woman was genuinely grief-stricken about it.
Fiction book (1992) -
How could I turn my back on the plight of this grief-stricken woman?
Fiction book (1990) -
Kyle supposed that the grief-stricken mother was seeing her lost daughter anew, and in some way alive, through a stranger's eyes.
Fiction book (2002) -
Millions of apparently grief-stricken North Koreans turned out to mourn the late Dear Leader.
Blog text (26)
Synonyms
95
3.4
Feeling very sad after someone you love dies
81
7.2
Being very upset and worried so you cannot think clearly
63
3.2
Feeling very sad because of a loss or disappointment
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3.9
Feeling deep sadness because of a loss
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7.5
Feeling very sad and alone because someone you love or something important is missing
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3.6
Feeling very sad because of loss or disappointment
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3.7
Feeling very sad because of a loss or disappointment
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6.7
Feeling very unhappy and alone after a loss
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7.2
Very sad and not able to be comforted
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7.4
Sad because someone they loved died
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6.3
Feeling very sad because of loss or disappointment
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6.3
Feeling very strong pain or deep worry
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8.2
Very sad and not able to be comforted
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6.9
Feeling very sad because of a loss
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5.4
Feeling very sad and weighed down inside
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7.7
Very upset and shocked after seeing or experiencing something terrible
Antonyms
How Sad
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Morphology
Etymology
Grief-stricken joins grief ('deep sadness') and stricken, from strike ('to hit'), so it paints the picture of someone 'hit by sadness'. That's why grief-stricken means overwhelmed or deeply affected by loss.