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100 Best Synonyms for “Grieving”

September 30, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. aching feeling persistent emotional pain
2. afflicted troubled by suffering
3. anguished experiencing severe emotional pain
4. benumbed emotionally numb
5. bereaved suffering the loss of someone
6. bereft left deeply deprived and sad
7. bleak sad and without hope
8. blue sad or depressed
9. bowed with grief weighed down by sorrow
10. bowed with sorrow weighed down by sadness
11. broken emotionally crushed
12. brokenhearted crushed by sadness or loss
13. bruised emotionally hurt
14. cheerless sad and lacking cheer
15. consumed by grief overwhelmed with sorrow
16. crestfallen sad and disappointed
17. crushed emotionally overwhelmed
18. crying shedding tears from sadness
19. dejected sad and discouraged
20. desolate lonely and deeply sorrowful
21. devastated shattered by emotional loss
22. disconsolate deeply unhappy and uncomforted
23. dispirited lacking hope or enthusiasm
24. distressed deeply upset or troubled
25. doleful sad and mournful
26. dolorous expressing deep sorrow
27. downcast sad and discouraged
28. downhearted sad and discouraged
29. filled with grief overcome by sorrow
30. filled with sorrow deeply saddened
31. flooded with grief overwhelmed by sorrow
32. forlorn sad, lonely, and abandoned
33. full of grief filled with intense sorrow
34. full of sorrow deeply sad
35. gloomy sad and without hope
36. grief-stricken overcome with grief
37. gutted devastated and deeply upset
38. haunted troubled by painful memories
39. heartbroken overwhelmed by deep sadness
40. heartsick deeply sad and troubled
41. heartsore sad from emotional hurt
42. heavyhearted weighed down by sadness
43. hurting feeling emotional pain
44. in grief feeling intense sorrow
45. in mourning grieving after a death
46. in sorrow feeling deep sadness
47. inconsolable unable to be comforted
48. joyless without happiness or pleasure
49. lamentful full of lament or sorrow
50. lamenting expressing sorrow for a loss
51. languishing suffering through longing or sadness
52. longing yearning sadly for someone
53. lorn lonely and forsaken
54. lost in grief absorbed in sorrow
55. lost in sorrow absorbed in sadness
56. low-spirited sad and lacking cheer
57. lugubrious exaggeratedly mournful
58. mad with grief overwhelmed by sorrow
59. melancholy sad in a quiet way
60. miserable extremely unhappy
61. mournful showing or feeling sorrow
62. mourning feeling sorrow after a loss
63. numb with grief stunned by sorrow
64. overcome overwhelmed by emotion
65. overwhelmed overpowered by strong emotion
66. pained hurt emotionally
67. pierced by grief hurt deeply by sorrow
68. pining suffering from longing
69. plaintive sounding sad and mournful
70. racked with grief tortured by sorrow
71. racked with sorrow tormented by sadness
72. reeling staggering from emotional shock
73. sad feeling sorrow or unhappiness
74. saddened made unhappy or sorrowful
75. saturnine gloomy and sullen
76. shattered emotionally devastated
77. somber serious, dark, and sad
78. sorrowful full of sadness
79. sorrowing feeling or showing sorrow
80. stricken overcome by sorrow or shock
81. suffering enduring pain or sorrow
82. sunk in grief deeply absorbed in sorrow
83. tearful close to or full of tears
84. tormented troubled by severe anguish
85. torn by grief deeply divided by sorrow
86. torn with grief overcome by sorrow
87. torn with sorrow overcome by sadness
88. tortured in intense emotional pain
89. troubled worried or distressed
90. undone emotionally overwhelmed
91. unhappy not happy; sad
92. upset emotionally disturbed or unhappy
93. wailing crying out in sorrow
94. weeping crying from sadness
95. woeful full of sorrow or misery
96. wounded emotionally injured
97. wracked with grief tormented by sorrow
98. wracked with sorrow tortured by sadness
99. wretched very unhappy or distressed
100. yearning aching with desire or loss

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