grief-stricken
Crushed by loss
Grief-stricken describes someone overwhelmed by grief, typically after a death or devastating loss.
The word suggests acute, visible anguish rather than quiet sorrow: The grief-stricken widow collapsed at the funeral.
It appears most often in news reports and formal contexts.
Deprived through loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- deathCessation of life
- deceasedNo longer living
- widowBereaved wife, unmarried since
widower · orphaned · funeral · condolences · eulogy · memorial · remembrance · wake
Severe prolonged suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- painBodily or emotional distress
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
agonized · woe · trauma · misery · wretchedness · tormented · pained · wretched
Passionate expression of grief
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- wailingProlonged mournful crying
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
crying · tears · lamenting · dirge · elegy · shiva · sackcloth · black
Beyond possibility of success
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- forlornSad and abandoned
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- helplessUnable to act independently
defeated · resigned · despondent · crestfallen · dejected · disconsolate · inconsolable · spiritless
Intense prolonged craving
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- achingExperiencing dull pain
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- homesickLonging for one's dwelling
wistful · heavy-hearted · heartsick · lovesick · melancholic · bittersweet · reminiscent · misty-eyed
bereft
Deprived through loss
widow · widower · orphaned · funeral · condolences · eulogy · memorial · remembrance · wake · obituary
torment
Severe prolonged suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- painBodily or emotional distress
distress · agonized · woe · trauma · misery · wretchedness · tormented · pained · wretched · aching
lamentation
Passionate expression of grief
keening · crying · tears · lamenting · dirge · elegy · shiva · sackcloth · black · vigil
hopeless
Beyond possibility of success
helpless · defeated · resigned · despondent · crestfallen · dejected · disconsolate · inconsolable · spiritless · numb
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
homesick · wistful · heavy-hearted · heartsick · lovesick · melancholic · bittersweet · reminiscent · misty-eyed · teary-eyed
- sadnesssad, unhappy, sorrowful, heartbroken, melancholy
- burdenedburdened, laden, loaded, weighed down, overburdened
- conditionsmedical condition, weather conditions, environmental conditions, living conditions, working conditions
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness