in mourning
Lamenting a loss
In mourning describes someone grieving a death, often marked by wearing dark clothing or observing formal rituals of bereavement: The family was still in mourning six months after the funeral.
The phrase can extend to grief over any significant loss: The whole city was in mourning after the team relocated.
- funeralService honoring the dead
- funeral processionFormal journey to interment
- bereavementState following loss
- blackDarkest possible hue
- silenceTotal lack of sound
widow's weeds · commiseration · sorrow · lamentation · eulogy · grave · grief · veil · keening · sitting shiva · shiva · shroud · crape · dirge · paying respects · wake · requiem · armband
in mourningcelebrating
Observing with festivity
rejoicing · jubilant · elated · in high spirits · overjoyed
in mourningcelebrating
Observing with festivity
making merry · reveling · feasting · toasting · partying
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