condolences
Words for mourners
Condolences are expressions of sympathy offered to someone grieving a loss, especially a death: Please accept my condolences, We sent our condolences to the family.
The word appears almost exclusively in this plural form and in formal contexts—cards, funeral visits, official statements.
To offer condolences or extend condolences is to express sorrow for another's misfortune.
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- funeralService honoring the dead
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
sympathy · eulogy · wake · memorial · obituary · shiva · interment · remembrance
Comfort during distress
- solaceRelief from distress
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- reassuranceWords meant to calm
- compassionConcern for others' distress
kindness · caring · tenderness · warmth · understanding · empathy · soothing · gentle
Recognizing with respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
eulogy · homage · testimonial · reverence · celebration · recognition · legacy · memory
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- funeralService honoring the dead
sorrow · sympathy · eulogy · wake · memorial · obituary · shiva · interment · remembrance · lamentation
consolation
Comfort during distress
- solaceRelief from distress
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- reassuranceWords meant to calm
compassion · kindness · caring · tenderness · warmth · understanding · empathy · soothing · gentle · thoughtfulness
honoring
Recognizing with respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
commemoration · eulogy · homage · testimonial · reverence · celebration · recognition · legacy · memory · respect
sympathy card
Message acknowledging another's grief
heartfelt · sincere · deepest · sending · offering · expressing · conveying · extending · words · thoughts
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- condolencesdeepest sympathy, sorry for your loss, with sympathy, sympathy card, thinking of you
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- social obligationscourtesy, politeness, greeting, obligation, thank you
- grief supportgrief counseling, grief counselor, bereavement support, grief therapy, bereavement leave
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, mourning
condolencescongratulations
Expression of praise for achievement
felicitations · mazel tov · best wishes · birthday wishes · compliments
condolencescongratulations
Expression of praise for achievement
rejoicing · jubilation · exultation · celebration · felicitations
- my condolencesExpression of shared sorrow
- heartfelt condolencesSincere expressions of grief
- offer one's condolencesExpress sympathy for loss
- condolence cardsMessages acknowledging someone's loss
- condolence letterWritten expression of sympathy
- condolence call