Grief
noun
The feeling of deep sorrow caused by losing someone you love.
She was overcome with grief when her grandmother passed away.
Often appears as...
- overcome with grief
- outpouring of grief
noun
A cause or source of trouble or distress.
The broken oven was a constant source of grief.
Often appears as...
- source of grief
- cause of grief
noun
Strong, heavy criticism.
He received a lot of grief for his decision.
Often appears as...
- get a lot of grief
- give someone grief
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Informal
noun
The feeling of deep sorrow caused by losing someone you love.
She was overcome with grief when her grandmother passed away.
Often appears as...
- overcome with grief
- outpouring of grief
noun
A cause or source of trouble or distress.
The broken oven was a constant source of grief.
Often appears as...
- source of grief
- cause of grief
noun
Strong, heavy criticism.
He received a lot of grief for his decision.
Often appears as...
- get a lot of grief
- give someone grief
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Emotional Pain
Grief is more intense than general sadness, reflecting a significant emotional impact.
His grief was apparent, tears streaming down his face.
Pro Tip 2/3Long-lasting Effect
Grief can last a long time and may not disappear quickly.
Years later, she still felt the grief of her loss.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Mourning
Grief is often private and personal, varying greatly from person to person.
Everyone shows grief in their own way; some cry, others remain quiet.
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Emotional Pain
Grief is more intense than general sadness, reflecting a significant emotional impact.
His grief was apparent, tears streaming down his face.
Pro Tip 2/3Long-lasting Effect
Grief can last a long time and may not disappear quickly.
Years later, she still felt the grief of her loss.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Mourning
Grief is often private and personal, varying greatly from person to person.
Everyone shows grief in their own way; some cry, others remain quiet.
Pro Tip 1/3Deep Emotional Pain
Grief is more intense than general sadness, reflecting a significant emotional impact.
His grief was apparent, tears streaming down his face.
Pro Tip 2/3Long-lasting Effect
Grief can last a long time and may not disappear quickly.
Years later, she still felt the grief of her loss.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Mourning
Grief is often private and personal, varying greatly from person to person.
Everyone shows grief in their own way; some cry, others remain quiet.
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Jodi Picoult: Leaving...
the cognitive abilities that elephants have. They can feel grief and pain and loss and they have incredible memories. All of those things are part of the elephant brain and the more I learned about that, the more I realize this was the perfect metaphor for the book and that I had a profession for one of the main characters in the book.
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Protecting the Hooded...
different approaches so pablo with his education taking his guitar his guitar is amazing beautiful grief guitar and going around all the schools in a massive area trying to educate people about the grieves and how important they are as a keystone species you know if you can save the grieves you
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Time Debt PIPE Linda...
which emotions and bad habits are robbing you of your vitality we all long to make a difference in this world and we lose chunks of time priceless momentum don't get me wrong there will always be fans of time that put us into debt like grief that require their own
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Surf Sisters - Ep. 2 PIPE...
But again, I'm really trying to dig deep, challenge myself, find that voice and kind of honor it. A huge part of why we feel the ocean is so powerful with grief, is that she embodies this kind of endless abyss that can hold all of us.
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The great conspiracy...
delivering a passionate speech at Caesar's funeral days later that whipped the crowd into a frenzy of grief and anger. As a result, the liberators were forced out of Rome. The ensuing power vacuum led to a series of civil wars,
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The messy truth about...
It's not fatal, but sometimes grief feels like it could be. And if we can't prevent it in one another, what can we do? We need each other to remember, to help each other remember, that grief is this multitasking emotion.
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Best Monkey Moments PIPE...
there's a sense of grief as well as empathy for one another quite accidentally our spy creature is at the center of something extraordinary capturing emotions that have rarely been observed
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Amazing Animal...
there's a sense of grief as well as empathy for one another quite accidentally our spy creature is at the center of something extraordinary capturing emotions that have rarely been observed
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Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
matriarch is a traumatic event and elephants have recently been observed visiting and caressing the bones of their departed friends this expression of elephant grief makes a strong
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3 ways companies can...
As the shock wore off and the all-consuming grief took over, I lost all meaning and purpose in life. Then my daughter spoke to me. She asked me to keep living. If I am not around,
Video examples
Jodi Picoult: Leaving...
the cognitive abilities that elephants have. They can feel grief and pain and loss and they have incredible memories. All of those things are part of the elephant brain and the more I learned about that, the more I realize this was the perfect metaphor for the book and that I had a profession for one of the main characters in the book.
Video examples
Protecting the Hooded...
different approaches so pablo with his education taking his guitar his guitar is amazing beautiful grief guitar and going around all the schools in a massive area trying to educate people about the grieves and how important they are as a keystone species you know if you can save the grieves you
Video examples
Time Debt PIPE Linda...
which emotions and bad habits are robbing you of your vitality we all long to make a difference in this world and we lose chunks of time priceless momentum don't get me wrong there will always be fans of time that put us into debt like grief that require their own
Video examples
Surf Sisters - Ep. 2 PIPE...
But again, I'm really trying to dig deep, challenge myself, find that voice and kind of honor it. A huge part of why we feel the ocean is so powerful with grief, is that she embodies this kind of endless abyss that can hold all of us.
Video examples
The great conspiracy...
delivering a passionate speech at Caesar's funeral days later that whipped the crowd into a frenzy of grief and anger. As a result, the liberators were forced out of Rome. The ensuing power vacuum led to a series of civil wars,
Video examples
The messy truth about...
It's not fatal, but sometimes grief feels like it could be. And if we can't prevent it in one another, what can we do? We need each other to remember, to help each other remember, that grief is this multitasking emotion.
Video examples
Best Monkey Moments PIPE...
there's a sense of grief as well as empathy for one another quite accidentally our spy creature is at the center of something extraordinary capturing emotions that have rarely been observed
Video examples
Amazing Animal...
there's a sense of grief as well as empathy for one another quite accidentally our spy creature is at the center of something extraordinary capturing emotions that have rarely been observed
Video examples
Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
matriarch is a traumatic event and elephants have recently been observed visiting and caressing the bones of their departed friends this expression of elephant grief makes a strong
Video examples
3 ways companies can...
As the shock wore off and the all-consuming grief took over, I lost all meaning and purpose in life. Then my daughter spoke to me. She asked me to keep living. If I am not around,
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Quote examples
Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.
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Emmylou Harris
American Musician
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
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Helen Garner
Australian Novelist
It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.
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John Lydon
English Musician
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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James Nachtwey
American Photographer
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
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John Pearson
British Theologian
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
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F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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Johann Georg Hamann
German Philosopher
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
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Ariel Levy
American Writer
Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
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Ann Voskamp
Canadian Author
When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
American Psychologist
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.
Quote examples
Emmylou Harris
American Musician
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Quote examples
Helen Garner
Australian Novelist
It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.
Quote examples
John Lydon
English Musician
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
Quote examples
James Nachtwey
American Photographer
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
Quote examples
John Pearson
British Theologian
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
Quote examples
F. Sionil Jose
Filipino Writer
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
Quote examples
Johann Georg Hamann
German Philosopher
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Quote examples
Ariel Levy
American Writer
Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
Quote examples
Ann Voskamp
Canadian Author
When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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