grief
Bereavement's heavy weight
Grief is deep sorrow, especially from loss or death.
The emotion is heavy and prolonged, unlike momentary sadness: She was overcome with grief when her mother died.
Grief extends to other painful losses—a relationship, a homeland, a way of life.
To come to grief is to fail or meet disaster.
Good grief is a mild exclamation of surprise or frustration.
Being without something
- mourningPeriod following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
sympathy · memorial · wake · obituary · remembrance · shiva · vigil · dirge
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- sadnessState of emotional pain
pain · suffering · torment · agony · distress · woe · misery · desolation
Service honoring the dead
- casketBurial container
- cremationBurning the deceased
- intermentPutting a body underground
- burialPlacing deceased underground
graveside · hearse · pallbearer · tombstone · headstone · graveyard · mausoleum · inurnment
Refusal to accept reality
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- bargainingNegotiating mutually acceptable terms
- depressionProlonged low state
- acceptanceConsent to receive
processing · healing · coping · recovery · therapy · counseling · support group · closure
loss
Being without something
condolences · sympathy · memorial · wake · obituary · remembrance · shiva · vigil · dirge · widow
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
sadness · pain · suffering · torment · agony · distress · woe · misery · desolation · heartbroken
funeral
Service honoring the dead
burial · graveside · hearse · pallbearer · tombstone · headstone · graveyard · mausoleum · inurnment · urn
denial
Refusal to accept reality
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- bargainingNegotiating mutually acceptable terms
- depressionProlonged low state
acceptance · processing · healing · coping · recovery · therapy · counseling · support group · closure
dying
Ceasing to live
finality · hospice · deathbed · deceased · departed · perish · end · cessation · terminal · final days
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- feelingsemotion, feeling, pleasure, joy, anger
- bad feelingssadness, anger, fear, sorrow, misery
- griefmourning, bereavement, sorrow, lamentation, sadness
- emotional changehealing, heartbreak, falling in love, recovery, awakening
- emotional stateshope, despair, jealousy, trust, depression
griefacceptance
Consent to receive
relief · gratitude · consolation · closure · healing
griefcelebration
Festive event marking occasion
rejoicing · triumph · thanksgiving · welcoming · homecoming
- good griefExclamation of exasperation
- grief therapyTreatment for mourning
- give someone griefCriticize or annoy persistently
- grief counselingProfessional support through mourning
- stages of griefSequential mourning responses
- airing grievances
grieve, grievance, grieving, grievous, grieved, griefs, grieves, aggrieved, grief-stricken