grief
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2.1
- noun
- /ɡriːf/
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- After losing her grandmother, she felt a deep sense of grief that took time to heal.
- loss and grief
- deal with grief
- feelings of grief
I'm still working out my relationship with grief, actually.
- I'm still working out my relationship with grief, actually.
- Yeah, but after the grief comes clarity.
- And I had to process that grief through myself.
- So is his, is his grief being commercialised?
- It's not just you feeling your own grief by yourself.
- How do you handle grief and loss of loved ones?
- They now are doing grief counseling by using this method.
- Rather, it's been replaced by grief, pain, bewilderment.
- And she's just devastated, like the grief is just crushing her.
- And when he like died, I felt the grief ripped through me.
- And the grief that she felt was profound.
- And and I just pushed my grief under the rug for years.
- That's kind of where I'm at with the whole grief thing at the moment.
Examples
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However, the grief and memories are not gone; they remain and are accessible anytime.
Academic text (2011) -
It's been a tough year full of grief and sadness.
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Walking through the journey of grief is never easy.
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And I had to process that grief through myself.
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And what I learned in grief was you let it take you.
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It's not just you feeling your own grief by yourself.
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I'm still working out my relationship with grief, actually.
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And the grief that she felt was profound.
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And now, after the initial wave of grief, he wondered at his calmness.
Fiction book (1990) -
Children manifest their grief at home, at school, and with their peers.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
310
2.8
A feeling of great unhappiness and suffering
243
2.1
A deep feeling of sadness after a loss
229
1.0
A feeling of being unhappy
79
4.8
Strong emotional pain you feel after losing someone or when love fails
76
3.9
A very strong sadness after losing someone you love
64
3.4
Deep sadness and pain you feel after losing or being rejected by someone you love
20
4.9
A deep, long-lasting feeling of sadness
13
5.8
A feeling of extreme sadness and shock after a big loss
11
7.0
A period of deep sadness after someone close dies
8
3.9
A period after someone dies when people show deep sadness
4
3.7
A very strong feeling of sadness after a great loss
4
9.1
A deep lasting feeling of sadness without a clear reason
Antonyms
Compounds
How Sad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grief comes from an old French word for 'burden' and the Latin root gravis meaning 'heavy', the same root you see in grave and gravity. So grief is like a 'heavy' weight on your heart after a loss.