GRIEF meaning: Intense sorrow caused by loss

We found 46 dictionaries that define the word grief:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

grief: Merriam-Webster.com
grief: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grief: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
grief: Collins English Dictionary
grief: Vocabulary.com
Grief, grief: Wordnik
grief: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
grief: Wiktionary
grief: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grief: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grief: Infoplease Dictionary
Grief, grief: Dictionary.com
grief: Online Etymology Dictionary
grief: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Grief (band), Grief (disambiguation), Grief (novel), Grief: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Grief: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
grief: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grief: Rhymezone
grief, grief (de), grief (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grief: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Grief: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
grief: Free Dictionary
grief: Mnemonic Dictionary
Grief, grief: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
grief: Dictionary/thesaurus
grief: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

grief: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Grief: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Grief: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
Reactive Attachment Disorder (No longer online)
Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Grief: Merck Manuals
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Grief: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
grief: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
grief: Medical dictionary
University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
Grief: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
grief: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

grief, grief, grief: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
grief: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Grief: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See griefing as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Suffering, hardship.
▸ noun:  Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
▸ noun:  (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
▸ verb:  (online gaming) 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, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so.

Opposite:

joy, happiness, contentment, pleasure, delight

Types:

anger, bargaining, depression, denial, acceptance, more...

Phrases:

good grief, grief reaction, Anticipatory grief, unresolved grief, Grief counseling, more...

Adjectives:

great, good, own, much, deepest, bitterest, personal, profound, real, intense, anticipatory

Colors:

black, gray, charcoal, onyx, midnight, gunmetal, smoke, shadow

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