Grieving and Sad

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Grieving adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.

Usage example: the grieving sobs of the widow could be heard throughout the funeral service

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Sad and grieving are semantically related in deploring topic. In some cases you can use "Sad" instead an adjective "Grieving".

Nearby Words: grievous, grievance, grieve, grief, grieved

Sad adjective - Feeling unhappiness.

Usage example: movies in which the hero dies always make us feel sad

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Grieving and sad are semantically related in deploring topic. Sometimes you can use "Grieving" instead an adjective "Sad".

Nearby Words: sadness, sadly

Truth is that they are all sad and grieving, especially Kash, they just decide to force on the more important, and still imminent, threats instead of breaking down into tears like Yuri did in schock.

Source: No Sympathy
Nonetheless, due to the events of the fic, she spends most of time sad and grieving.

Source: Fanfic / The Death Of One
Turns out, Reina was so sad and scared that she was unable to talk until Bolster reunited her with her grieving human mother.

Source: Manga / Hunter × Hunter

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