mourners
Those who grieve
Mourners are people grieving a death, especially those attending a funeral or memorial service.
The term emphasizes the collective nature of grief—mourners gather to honor the deceased and support one another: Mourners filed past the casket.
Professional mourners, hired to weep at funerals, exist in various cultures.
Formal moving line
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
- casketBurial container
- hearseVehicle transporting caskets
cemetery · wake · interment · cremation · burial · cortege · shroud · eulogy
Bereaved wife, unmarried since
- widowerMan whose wife died
- orphanChild whose parents died
- survivorsThose still alive after
- familyRelated people together
relatives · grieving · heartbroken · inconsolable · bereft · loss · anguish · comforters
Deep emotional distress
- tearsViolent pulls apart
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- wailingProlonged mournful crying
sobbing · anguish · heartache · despair · sadness · melancholy · woe · desolation
Profound admiring respect
- dignityInnate personal worth
- respectRegard with honor
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- sombernessGrave, serious quality
silence · contemplation · procession · black attire · veils · hushed · subdued · somber
procession
Formal moving line
- pallbearersFuneral procession carriers
- gravesideBeside a burial plot
- casketBurial container
hearse · cemetery · wake · interment · cremation · burial · cortege · shroud · eulogy · dirge
widow
Bereaved wife, unmarried since
family · relatives · grieving · heartbroken · inconsolable · bereft · loss · anguish · comforters · supporters
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
- tearsViolent pulls apart
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
wailing · sobbing · anguish · heartache · despair · sadness · melancholy · woe · desolation · keening
reverence
Profound admiring respect
somberness · silence · contemplation · procession · black attire · veils · hushed · subdued · somber · serenity
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
- tributeOffering of respect
- homageExpression of deep respect
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
vigil · candlelight · flowers · wreath · offerings · prayers · obituary · legacy · monument · plaque
- funeral processionhearse, cortege, funeral procession, pallbearers, pallbearer
- Jewish mourningshiva, shivah, yahrzeit, sitting shiva, seven days
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- mournersgriever, grieving parent, grievers, widow, bereaved
- jazz funeralsecond line, brass band, parade, grand marshal, umbrella
mournerscelebrants
Those observing special occasions
revelers · partygoers · merrymakers · celebrators · well-wishers
mournerskillers
Those who cause death
murderers · executioners · grave robbers · desecrators · assassins
- chief mournerMain person grieving deceased
- mourner's mealFood served after funerals