Grief-stricken
Grief-stricken adjective - Sorrowful through loss or deprivation.
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Synonyms for Grief-stricken
Mourning is a synonym for grief-stricken. In some cases you can use "Mourning" instead an adjective phrase "Grief-stricken".
Mourning
Mourning adjective - Sorrowful through loss or deprivation.
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Synonyms for Mourning
Grief-stricken is a synonym for mourning. You can use "Grief-stricken" instead an adjective "Mourning".
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Related pairs
- melancholy and grief-stricken
- melancholy and mourning
- sad and grief-stricken
- sad and mourning
- unhappy and grief-stricken
- unhappy and mourning
- miserable and grief-stricken
- miserable and mourning
- wretched and grief-stricken
- wretched and mourning
- despondent and grief-stricken
- despondent and mourning
- black and grief-stricken
- black and mourning
Both words in one sentence
- When Prince Albert died in 1861 Victoria was grief-stricken and went into mourning which lasted until her death in 1901.
Source: Perfectly Arranged Marriage - Immortal Coil, published in February 2002, has a grief-stricken Data, mourning the death of his mother, rant that he would never see the people he'd lost in the afterlife, if there was one, because he would never die - since with adequate repair, he could in theory last almost indefinitely.
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An Older Than Feudalism example: In a production of Sophocles' Electra, an actor named Polus, in order to convincly play the part of the grief-stricken heroine mourning her brother, came on stage carrying a urn containing the ashes of his own son.
Source: Method Acting
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