What does grief mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartednessnoun

    intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

  2. grief, sorrownoun

    something that causes great unhappiness

    "her death was a great grief to John"

Wiktionary

  1. griefnoun

    Suffering, hardship.

  2. griefnoun

    Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

  3. griefnoun

    Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.

    Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. -Isaiah 53:4

  4. griefverb

    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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Griefnoun

    Etymology: from grieve; griff, Welsh, probably from the English.

    I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
    For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout. William Shakespeare.

    Wringing of the hands, knocking the breast, or wishing one’s self unborn, are but the ceremonies of sorrow, the pomp and ostentation of an effeminate grief, which speak not so much the greatness of the misery as the smallness of the mind. Robert South, Sermons.

    The mother was so afflicted at the loss of a fine boy, who was her only son, that she died for grief of it. Joseph Addison, Spect.

    Be factious for redress of all these griefs,
    And I will set this foot of mine as far
    As who goes farthest. William Shakespeare.

    The king hath sent to know
    The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
    You conjure from the breast of civil peace
    Such bold hostility? William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.

ChatGPT

  1. grief

    Grief is an intense emotional reaction to loss, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or another significant change or tragedy in a person's life. This emotional response can include feelings of sorrow, heartache, anger, and despair, and can affect a person's physical, cognitive, spiritual, and social health. It is a natural part of the human experience, though its duration and intensity can vary greatly between individuals.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Griefadjective

    pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness

  2. Griefadjective

    cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance

  3. Griefadjective

    physical pain, or a cause of it; malady

Wikidata

  1. Grief

    Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement refers to the state of loss, and grief is the reaction to loss. Grief is a natural response to loss. It is the emotional suffering one feels when something or someone the individual loves is taken away. Grief is also a reaction to any loss. The grief associated with death is familiar to most people, but individuals grieve in connection with a variety of losses throughout their lives, such as unemployment, ill health or the end of a relationship. Loss can be categorised as either physical or abstract, the physical loss being related to something that the individual can touch or measure, such as losing a spouse through death, while other types of loss are abstract, and relate to aspects of a person’s social interactions.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Grief

    grēf, n. heaviness of heart: sorrow: regret: mourning: cause of sorrow: affliction: (B.) bodily as well as mental pain.—adjs. Grief′ful (Spens.), full of grief; Grief′less, sorrowless; Grief′shot (Shak.), pierced with grief. [Fr.,—L. gravis, heavy.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. grief

    1. The telescope of the emotions that unfolds to your eye the meaning of all worlds. 2. The overtones in all joy. 3. The pleasure that lasts the longest. 4. The tears of Memory. 5. The vice of weakness and the virtue of strength.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Grief

    Normal, appropriate sorrowful response to an immediate cause. It is self-limiting and gradually subsides within a reasonable time.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GRIEF

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Grief is ranked #69579 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Grief surname appeared 282 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Grief.

    94.6% or 267 total occurrences were White.
    2.8% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'grief' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4444

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'grief' in Nouns Frequency: #2367

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of grief in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of grief in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of grief in a Sentence

  1. Joan Didion:

    Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

  2. Joe Biden:

    From the time they were born, including my children, they have been in the public eye. It's not a bad place but not an overwhelmingly comfortable place to be. Everything that happens is public knowledge. You get to celebrate publicly and you have to share your grief publicly. And so they're not naïve, the first hurdle for me was deciding whether or not I am comfortable taking the family through what would be a very, very difficult campaign.

  3. Marco Bulmer-Rizzi:

    Three Australian families have been given the gift of life and that was probably the best moment from all of this, david’s life will continue and it provides relief for otherwise unbearable grief.

  4. Cory Gardner:

    Access to mental health care is especially important during this trying time filled with grief and uncertainty for so many people.

  5. John McCain:

    There's one man who has made pain in my life a living hell and another man who has literally shepherded me through the grief process.

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