GRIEF.
Synonyms:
| affliction, | melancholy, | regret, | sorrow, | trouble, |
| distress, | mourning, | sadness, | tribulation, | wo. |
Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.
Antonyms:
See synonyms for [HAPPINESS].
Prepositions:
Grief at a loss; for a friend.