Definitions for grief
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Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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(1.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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

Freebase(3.40 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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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Matched Categories

1. • Negative Stimulus
   • Sorrow

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

How to pronounce grief?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Roxanne Dube:

   Your grief is our grief, we can only hope that, in time, we will find common purpose towards diminishing the causes of such violent crimes. For now, we just want to be there for Marc, our incredibly caring son who loved his brother very much, and to say goodbye, ever so tenderly and quietly to Jean, our love.

2. Justin Salinger:

   When you have a miscarriage, there's this idea that it's not as real for the man because we're not growing the baby inside of us, we're conditioned not to express emotion and to give our wives space to feel grief and pain. The truth is that we're hurting, too.

3. Nicolas Chamfort:

   Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. -- About Paris

4. Sophocles:

   Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

5. Jasvinder Kaur:

   We must support one another, not just in grief, but in calling our policymakers and elected officials to make meaningful change, the time to act is not later, but now. We are far too many tragedies, too late, in doing so.

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