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grieving

/ˈɡɹiːvɪŋ/

grieving adjective: feeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone. Also the present participle and gerund of grieve.

Adjective

grieving

  1. Feeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone.

Noun

grieving (plural grievings)

  1. An act or instance of feeling or expressing grief.
    Synonyms:
    mourning

Also used as

grieving is also the present participle and gerund of grieve.

grieving meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati

grieving in Hindi

शोकाकुल

grieving in Urdu

غمزدہ کرنا

grieving in Bengali

শোকার্ত, শোকাহত, শোকার্ত হয়ে

grieving in Gujarati

શોક કરવો
More languagesFewer languages
grieving in Nepali
शोकाकुल

Synonyms of grieving

Forms of grieving

pluralgrievings

Words that rhyme with grieving

Questions about grieving

What does grieving mean?
Grieving means feeling or showing sorrow or distress due to loss, especially the death of someone.
What is grieving in Hindi?
Grieving in Hindi is शोकाकुल. See Grieving meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is grieving?
Grieving can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce grieving?
Grieving is pronounced /ˈɡɹiːvɪŋ/.

Words near grieving in the dictionary

  1. grieveships
  2. grievesome
  3. grievest
  4. grieveth
  5. grievin'
  6. grieving
  7. grievingly
  8. grievings
  9. grievious
  10. grievor
  11. grievous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grieving (page history and authors); grieving (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grieving (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grieving (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grieving (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grieving (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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