mourn
Weep for someone
To mourn is to grieve, especially for someone who has died.
Mourning involves the outward expression of grief—wearing black, observing rituals, withdrawing from normal activities: The nation mourned the president's death.
You can also mourn losses other than death: She mourned the end of her marriage, He mourned his lost youth.
The period of mourning varies by culture and relationship.
Mournful commemorative music
- requiemMass for the deceased
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- threnodyMemorial song of grief
- eulogyTribute for the dead
ode · verse · poetry · ballad · composition · hymn · psalm · lyric
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- weepShed tears emotionally
- lamentMournful expression of grief
despair · woe · misery · suffering · torment · bereft · pining · yearning
Service honoring the dead
- wakePath left in water
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- cremationBurning the deceased
- processionFormal moving line
eulogy · pallbearer · hearse · casket · shroud · cemetery · graveside · interment
Offering of respect
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- homageExpression of deep respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- legacyWhat's passed down
keepsake · memento · monument · plaque · anniversary · honor · dedication · shrine
dirge
Mournful commemorative music
eulogy · ode · verse · poetry · ballad · composition · hymn · psalm · lyric · refrain
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
lament · despair · woe · misery · suffering · torment · bereft · pining · yearning · melancholy
funeral
Service honoring the dead
procession · eulogy · pallbearer · hearse · casket · shroud · cemetery · graveside · interment · obituary
bereavement
State following loss
departed · gone · widow · widower · orphan · survivor · void · longing · nostalgia · regret
tribute
Offering of respect
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- homageExpression of deep respect
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
legacy · keepsake · memento · monument · plaque · anniversary · honor · dedication · shrine · candlelight
somber
Gravely serious in mood
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
- solemnSerious and dignified
pensive · wistful · forlorn · doleful · heavy-hearted · downcast · brooding · plaintive · subdued · hushed
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- Jesus' teachingsSermon on the Mount, beatitudes, Beatitudes, love your enemies, Lord's Prayer
- wantingwant, desire, crave, yearn, long
- guiltguilty, guilt trip, guilty conscience, remorseful, contrition
- mental verbsthink, believe, know, imagine, remember
- negative verbsdeny, refuse, reject, decline, forbid
- national mourningNationwide period of sorrow
- in mourningGrieving after death
- mourning periodsIntervals set for grieving
- mourning ritualCeremonial grief expression
- mourning dovesSlender cooing North American birds
- mourning attireClothing for grief
mournful, mourning, mourner, mourns, mourned, mournfulness, mourners, mournfully, mournings