grief
/ɡɹiːf/
grief noun: suffering, hardship.
Noun
grief (countable and uncountable, plural griefs or grieves)
- Suffering, hardship.
- The neighbour's teenagers give me grief every time they see me.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- She was worn out from so much grief.
- The betrayal caused Jeff grief.
- Synonyms:
- dejection, misery, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, depression, despondency, distress
- A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
- Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 53:4
- Synonyms:
- hardship, sorrow, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grievance, misery, ruth, sadness, undelight
Verb
grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)
- To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.
- While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated...2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired
grief meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
grief in Hindi
- sadness
- दुःख duḥkh, शोक śok, ग़म ġam, मातम mātam
grief in Tamil
- grief
- தோகம் tōkam, மனஸ்தாபம் maṉastāpam, மனக்குறை maṉakkuṟai
- grief, sorrow, anguish
- கவற்சி kavaṟci
grief in Marathi
- grief, sadness, unhappiness, sorrow
- दुःख duḥkha
grief in Urdu
- sadness
- غَم ġam
More languagesFewer languages
- grief in Bengali
- দুঃখ dukkho, দেরেগ dereg, গোসা gōśa, নারাজী naraji
- grief in Telugu
- వ్యాసంగము vyāsaṅgamu, శోకము śōkamu, దుఃఖము duḥkhamu, పరితాపము paritāpamu
- grief in Malayalam
- സങ്കടം saṅkaṭaṁ, പിണി piṇi, പ്രയാസം prayāsaṁ
- grief in Kannada
- ದುಃಖ duḥkha
- grief in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ੋਕ śok, ਸੋਗ sog, ਦਰਦ dard, ਹਉਕਾ haukkā
- grief in Gujarati
- હૈયાવરાળ haiyāvrāḷ, અફસોસ aphasos
- grief in Odia
- ସାଦ sāda, ରଞ୍ଜ୍ rañj
- grief in Sanskrit
- दुःख duḥkhá
- grief in Assamese
- দাহ dah
- grief in Pashto
- غم ǧam, خپګان xapgān, خفګان xafgān
- grief in Arabic
- غَمّ ḡamm, حُزْن ḥuzn, كَآبَة kaʔāba, كَدَر kadar
- grief in Malay
- duka, ratapan, sugul, dukachita
- grief in Indonesian
- pilu
- grief in Persian
- غم ġam, سوگ sug
- grief in Thai
- ความเศร้า kwaam-sâo
- grief in Vietnamese
- buồn, buồn rầu
- grief in Myanmar
- ပရိဒေဝ pa.ri.dewa., အဆွေး a.hcwe:
Examples of grief in a sentence
- After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.
- After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.
- Funerals are ten times worse with necrophobia in addition to grief.
Synonyms of grief
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- dejection
- misery
- blueness
- tristesse
- mirthless
- blues
- crestfallenness
- depression
- despondency
- dolefulness
- downheartedness
- forlornness
- ill-being
- infelicity
- melancholia
- melancholy
- mourn
- sadness
- sorrow
- sorrowfulness
- tristfulness
- undelight
- unhappiness
- woe
- woefare
- wretchedness
- affliction
- aggrievance
- grievance
- vexation
Forms of grief
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | griefs |
| plural | grieves |
| alternative form (obsolete) | greefe |
| alternative form (obsolete) | griefe |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | griefs |
| present participle | griefing |
| past participle | griefed |
| past | griefed |
Origin of grief
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
Words formed from grief
Phrases with grief
Words that rhyme with grief
Questions about grief
- What does grief mean?
- Grief means suffering, hardship.
- What is grief in Hindi?
- Grief in Hindi is दुःख (duḥkh), शोक (śok), ग़म (ġam). See Grief meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is grief?
- Grief can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce grief?
- Grief is pronounced /ɡɹiːf/.
- What is the plural of grief?
- The plural of grief is griefs.
Words near grief in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grief (page history and authors); கவற்சி (Tamil) (page history and authors); दुःख (Marathi) (page history and authors); అంగలార్పు (Telugu) (page history and authors); പിണി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ದುಃಖ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਦਰਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); અફસોસ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ରଞ୍ଜ୍ (Odia) (page history and authors); দাহ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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