mourns
Weeps for loss
Mourns is the act of grieving or expressing sorrow, typically over a death: She still mourns her late husband.
Beyond bereavement, one can mourn any significant loss—a relationship, an era, a way of life: He mourns his lost youth.
Public mourning may involve rituals, dress, or periods of observance.
Deep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
sadness · melancholy · weeping · wailing · lamentation · suffering · agony · torment
Service honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- wakePath left in water
- shivaJewish week of mourning
- vigilPurposeful nighttime wakefulness
requiem · memorial · procession · pallbearers · interment · graveside · cemetery · casket
State following loss
- widowBereaved wife, unmarried since
- widowerMan whose wife died
- orphanChild whose parents died
- departedHaving left
deceased · death · passing · tragedy · trauma · remembrance · absence · void
Gravely serious in mood
- reverentFeeling profound respect
- subduedReduced in intensity
- dignifiedComposed and respectable
- graveSerious and worrying
respectful · quiet · contemplative · pensive · reflective · sorrowful · hushed · black
Offering of respect
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- legacyWhat's passed down
- heirloomInherited family treasure
keepsake · shrine · candle · anniversary · memorial · epitaph · dedication · reflection
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
despair · sadness · melancholy · weeping · wailing · lamentation · suffering · agony · torment · pining
funeral
Service honoring the dead
vigil · requiem · memorial · procession · pallbearers · interment · graveside · cemetery · casket · urn
bereavement
State following loss
departed · deceased · death · passing · tragedy · trauma · remembrance · absence · void · survivor
somber
Gravely serious in mood
grave · respectful · quiet · contemplative · pensive · reflective · sorrowful · hushed · black · veiled
tribute
Offering of respect
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- legacyWhat's passed down
heirloom · keepsake · shrine · candle · anniversary · memorial · epitaph · dedication · reflection · nostalgia
- 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
mourn, mournful, mourning, mourner, mourned, mournfulness, mourners