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.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Griefnoun

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

   1. Sorrow; trouble for something past.

   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.

   2. Grievance; harm. [ Grief, French.]

   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.

   3. Pain; disease.

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

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say grief in sign language?

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. Tom Dening:

   The main thing is for the key people in the life of the deceased to communicate with each other, to share their grief by whatever medium... they feel comfortable with.

2. Tim Walz:

   The very tools that we need to use to get control, to make sure that buildings aren't burned and the rule of law collapses, are those very institutional tools that have led to that grief and pain, i understand clearly there is no trust in many of our communities, and the differentiation between the Minneapolis Police Department that we witnessed losing trust of those they are there to serve is very difficult for people to make.

3. Vernon Howard:

   Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

4. Paulina Porizkova:

   To me, my menopause is tied into the grief over my husband, … I felt like somebody just peeled my skin off. Like this process of grieving and heartbreak and betrayal, it stripped me of my Paulina skin, the one that I used to know, the one that used to protect me. I don’t have anything that protects me anymore.

5. Gabriel Salguero:

   In the midst of our collective grief, I pray we avoid criminalizing or casting collective blame on entire communities for the actions committed by one or even a small number of individuals.

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