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Definition: Grief |
GriefNoun1. Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death). 2. Something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grief" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Grief To come to grief. To be ruined; to fail in business. As lots of money is the fulness of joy, so the want of it is the grief of griefs. The Americans call the dollar "almighty." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Suffering is any unwanted condition and the corrresponding negative emotion. It is usually associated with pain and unhappiness, but any condition can be suffering if it is unwanted. Antonyms include happiness or pleasure.In a phrase like "suffering from a disease" emphasis is on having the disease, less on the unhappiness it causes.
Related terms are sadness, sorrow and grief. Some view anger as a type of suffering.
Boredom, or ennui (a French word, from Old French enui) is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Temporarily being in a situation of boredom may also be felt as a waste of time, but then it is usually considered worse than just that. Alternatively one may have the feeling that boredom is caused by having too much time.
Buddhism
In Buddhism, suffering is called dukkha. The fundamental principles of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, describe dukkha and a method of ending it.
Law
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 defines "torture" as involving "suffering":
Similarly, the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998, defines "torture" as a crime against humanity as involving "suffering":
- "...the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. "
- ""Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions."
Christianity
"Suffering belongs to the discipline of all Christ's followers (Romans 8:17; 2 Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 3:4; Philippians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Timothy 3:12; James 5:10; 1 Peter 2:20 f.; 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:13, 1 Peter 4:16; 1 Peter 5:10). Such suffering is called a suffering for God's or Christ's sake (Jeremiah 15:15; Acts 9:16; Philippians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:12). This fellowship in suffering unites us with the saints of God in all times (James 5:10), and is indeed a fellowship with the Lord Himself (Philippians 3:10), who uses this discipline to mold us more and more according to His character."1
Language
An alternative meaning of "suffer" is "to allow".
Related topics
- Utopia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Suffering."
Synonyms: GriefSynonyms: brokenheartedness (n), heartache (n), heartbreak (n), sorrow (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. |
Condolence | Verb: condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament; with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow. |
Failure | Limp, halt, hobble, fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on. |
Lamentation | Frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one's teeth, wring one's hands, tear one's hair, beat one's breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief. |
Pain | Labor under afflictions; bear the cross; quaff the bitter cup, have a bad time of it; fall on evil days; (adversity); go hard with, come to grief, fall a sacrifice to, drain the cup of misery to the dregs, "sup full of horrors". |
Concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief; Noun: in tears; (lamenting); steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair. | |
Concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief. | |
Repute | Above all Greek above all Roman fame ; - cineri gloria sera est; "great is the glory for the strife is hard "; honor virtutis praemium; immensum gloria calcar habet; " the glory dies not and the grief is past "; vivit post funera virtus. |
Wonder | Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I? |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I have not the heart to tell you. For me the grief is still too near (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Paul, you have to channel all this nice grief into a murderous rage (Analyze This; writing credit: Kenneth Lonergan; Peter Tolan) Good grief, man, it's as simple as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) That ring was like the Maltese Falcon: it brought them nothing but grief. (Grapevine; writing credit: David Frankel) Oh well, Tara's right, grief can be powerful and we shouldn't judge (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Causing Grief In (Black or White; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Michael Jackson) | |
Clever | Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (references; author: Mark Twain) Good grief (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Girl Grief (1932) Grief Street (1931) Lots of Grief (1926) The Wages of Sin -- A Mother's Grief (1901) Good Grief (1990) | |
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 | Grief stricken man by table with onlookers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The grief of Nah-Chu-Ru-Chu. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | These prewar tires are causing a lot of grief. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | What every husband knows. Great grief! No towels! May-bul! Where in Sam Hill ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington, ... a couple of bootleggers and their car come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Doubled up inside" by Ozgur Atmaca Commentary: "Doubled up inside take awhile to shed my grief, doubled up inside taunted, cruel.. + tripod Used + full view suggested + title inspired by portishead + model : me Cam : Sony DSC-P9 Edit : PS 7.0 ." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christian Nevell Bovee | Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. |
Desiderius Erasmus | Time takes away the grief of men. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. |
Euripides | Youth holds no society with grief. |
George Herbert | Was ever grief like mine? |
Jean de La Fontaine | On the wings of Time grief flies away. |
Oliver Goldsmith | In all the silent manliness of grief. |
Terence | To touch a sore is to renew one's grief. |
William Shakespeare | Patch grief with proverbs. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Grief Observed | C.S. Lewis | I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Ay brother, to our grief, as it is yours |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The poor girl laid me on her bosom, and fell weeping with shame and grief. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Study the treatment of pathological grief. (references) | |
Common reactions are denial, anger, guilt, grief, fear, and confusion. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute |
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Kerry Kelly | I think in addition to the grief process, which has really been extended because we have had memorial services and funerals that began soon after this event and have continued and will continue through, people are dealing with their own stress reactions. |
Orrin Hatch | Well, you can't prefer one group over another in this day and age, that's what you call racial quotas. All that does is create more animosity, more grief. It's unfair to those who are excluded and left out. |
William Shatner | Tragedy, loss, grief. Big, big factor of grief. And so, to take the moment and say my heart, our hearts go out to all those people who are grieving Danny Pearl and the rest of the world, there's so many, so many tragedies. |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I have seen the hunger of a homeless child, the pain of a man wounded in battle, the grief of a mother who has lost her son. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Like all parents who lose their children, his father Tom has borne unimaginable grief. |
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| "Grief" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.41% of the time. "Grief" is used about 1,362 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.41% | 1,354 | 5,876 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.44% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 0.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,362 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "grief" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grief | Last name | 300 | 24,631 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "grief". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Achaia | N/A | Biblical | Grief |
| Halhul | N/A | Biblical | Looking for grief |
| Halhul | N/A | Biblical | Grief |
| Helon | N/A | Biblical | Grief |
| Hilen | N/A | Biblical | Grief |
| Holon | N/A | Biblical | Grief |
| Medeba | N/A | Biblical | Waters of grief |
| Ono | N/A | Biblical | Grief or strength or iniquity of him |
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Expressions using "grief": be consumed with grief ♦ bring to grief ♦ burst with grief ♦ cause grief ♦ come to grief ♦ gnawing grief ♦ grief stem ♦ poignant grief ♦ prostrate wit grief ♦ speechless grief ♦ succumb to grief ♦ To come to grief ♦ without grief. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "grief": grief-maddened, grief-obsessed, grief-stricken, grief-work. | |
Ending with "grief": ewe-grief. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grief | 751 | five stage of grief | 20 |
stage of grief | 216 | education grief | 18 |
grief counseling | 141 | grief silent | 18 |
grief and loss | 103 | counselor grief | 17 |
grief poem | 90 | good grief | 16 |
grief support | 44 | coping with grief | 16 |
grief support group | 40 | grief death | 14 |
child and grief | 40 | 7 stage of grief | 13 |
grief resource | 35 | grief management | 12 |
loss and bereavement grief | 30 | grief sibling | 12 |
dealing with grief | 29 | anticipatory grief | 11 |
grief article | 27 | child grief loss | 11 |
grief poetry | 26 | grief therapy | 11 |
grief recovery | 26 | brother grief | 11 |
pet grief | 24 | grief depression | 11 |
grief process | 24 | grief book | 10 |
grief and bereavement | 20 | cycle grief | 10 |
grief quote | 20 | pet loss grief | 10 |
seven stage of grief | 20 | divorce grief | 9 |
5 stage of grief | 20 | grief man poor wayfaring | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "grief"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bedroefdheid (dejection, gloom, sadness, sorrow). (various references) | |
Albanian | pikëllim (affliction, dolor, dolour, heartache, sorrow, wrench), pafatkeqësi, mjerim (adversity, destitution, hardship, misery, misfortune, pauperism, penury, squalor, woe), hidhërim (chagrin, dejection, sadness, soreness, sorrow, unhappiness), brengë (damp, oppression, sadness, sorrow). (various references) | |
Arabic | غم (fill with sadness, sadness, to cover, worry), اسف (regret, to regret), كارثة (blow, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, disaster, evil, fatal, fate, holocaust, plague, scourge, shambles), كآبة (bleakness, damp, dejection, depression, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mope, sadness, sombreness, sorrow, spleen), مرارة (bitter, bitterish, bitterness, gall, soreness, vinegar, wormwood), غم (anguish, chagrin, gloom, melancholy, oppress, oppression, pique, soreness, sorrow), حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depress, depression, distress, doldrums, gloom, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow), أسي, أسف (be sorry, grieve, pity, plead guilty, regret, regretful, repent, repentance, rue, sorrow, sorry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скръб (affliction, regret, sadness, sorrow), ядове (bother), огорчение (embitterment, mortification, pain, smart), несполука (abortion, down, dud, knock, miscarriage, mucker, off, unhappiness), мъка (ado, affliction, agony, desolation, excruciation, heartache, laceration, misery, moil, pain, suffering, toil, torment, torture), покруса (affliction, despair, mortification), печал (dolor, dolour, sadness, sorrow). (various references) | |
Chinese | 慟 , 慼 (ashamed), 悲 (sad, sadness, sorrow), 哀痛 (deep sorrow), 哀情, 哀思 (pensive), 哀 (pity, sorrow, to grieve for, to lament, to pity). (various references) | |
Czech | zármutek (bereavement, chagrin, distress, pain, regret, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), smutek (chill, gloom, misery, mourning, sables, sadness, unhappiness), hoře (heartache, pain, sorrow, woe), bol. (various references) | |
Dutch | verdriet (affliction, annoyance, chagrin, disappointment), smart (annoyance, dejection, disappointment, sadness, sorrow), leed (annoyance, disappointment). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malgajeco (sadness, sorrow), ĉagreno (annoyance, disappointment). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gremjan (annoyance, disappointment), ekki (annoyance, disappointment). (various references) | |
Farsi | غم (Despondency, Remorse, Rue, Sorrow), غصه (Heartache, Rue, Sorrow, Woe), حزن (Despondency, Sorrow), اندوه (Chagrin, Distress, Dole, Dolor, Heartache), رنجش (Acrimony, Annoyance, Bother, Irritation, Miff, Offense, Pique, Resentment, Umbrage, Vexation). (various references) | |
Finnish | suru (mourning, sorrow, worry), sureminen (mourning), murhe (care, sorrow). (various references) | |
French | peine (gruel). (various references) | |
German | gram (annoyance, disappointment, frief, sorrow), kummer (affliction, distress, dolefulness, heartache, misery, pain, sorrow, trouble, woe), weh (ache, aching, alas, annoyance, disappointment, hurt, pain, sore, woe), harm (annoyance, disappointment, sore affliction), betrübnis (annoyance, dejection, disappointment, distress, sadness, sorrow). (various references) | |
Greek | λύπη (pain, pity on, regret, regretfulness, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfullness, woe), θλίψη (affliction, chagrin, distress, dolor, dolour, regretfulness, sadness, sorriness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מורת רוח (annoyance, bitterness, miff, rancour, resentment, sorrow, spite), מכאוב (ache, affliction, ail, disease, pain, trouble), מגנה (sorrow), יגון (agony, desolation, gloom, sadness, sorrow), תוגה (sorrow), עגמת נפש (aggravation), עגמומיות (bleakness, luridness, sorrow, wistfulness), עגמה (anguish, distress, sorrow), עצב (dolour, melancholy, pain, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow, toil), אבלות (mourning), כאב (ache, hurt, malady, pain, soreness, suffering, torment, torture, wrench), הצטערות (regret, sorrow), דאבה (anguish, anxiety, distress, sadness, sorrow), צער (anguish, dolour, misery, sorrow), נכאים (depression, gloom, sadness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szomorúság (dejection, discomfort, dismalness, dreariness, dumps, gloom, mournfulness, ruefulness, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, woe), bánat (chagrin, discomfort, pits, rue, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, woe), szerencsétlenség (adversity, amiss, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, fatality, ills, misadventure, misfortune, misgiving, mishap, smash, wretchedness), nyomorúság (affliction, beggary, distress, extremity, misery, penury, poverty), fájdalom (ache, angina, angina pectoris, distress, dolor, dolour, ease from pain, gip, gippo, gout, pain, pang, soreness, suffering, throe, throes), baj (bane, bother, complaint, discomfort, harm, malady, matter, misadventure, mischief, mischievousness, misery, misfortune, need, pits, predicament, trouble, woe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | duka (distress, sorrow), cita-cita (aspiration, goal, ideal). (various references) | |
Italian | pena (ache, achiness, anguish, distress, dolor, dolour, pain, penalty, punishment, scourge, sorrow, suffering, trouble), dolore (ache, bale, distress, dolor, dolour, mournfulness, pain, painfulness, sorrow, woe), dispiacere (be sorry, disapproval, dislike, displease, displeasure, dissatisfy, hate, mind, not to like, regret, trouble), cordoglio (condolence, sorrow), afflizione (affliction, distress, mournfulness, sadness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 憂愁 (gloom, melancholy), 愁傷 (sorrow), 悲嘆 (anguish, sorrow), 哀愁 (pathos, sorrow). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うれいごと (bitter experience, distress, misery, sad thoughts), ゆうしゅう (deep contemplation, excellence, gloom, imprisonment, melancholy, perfection, superiority, the multitudes, the people), あわれ (compassion, helpless, misery, pathos, pity, sorrow), あいこく (lamentation, mourning, patriotism), あいせき (a tablewith someone you don't know, loathing to part, missing someone, sorrow), あいしょう (affinity, compatibility, fondness for singing, love of reading, pet name, prostitute, sorrow), あいしゅう (attachment, covetous affection, pathos, sorrow), いたみ (ache, bruise, damage, distress, pain, sore), かなしみ (sadness, sorrow), かなしさ (sadness, sorrow), ゆうせき, うれい (distress, gloomy, sad, sorrow, unhappy), たんそく (deploring, probing, short legs, sigh, sighing in grief, sounding), うきめ (bitter experience, distress, hardship, misery, sad thoughts), ひあい (daily interest rate, sadness, sorrow, time), ひしょう (flight, flying, petty, soaring, spending, this wretch, trifling, you wretch), ひしゅう, ひたん (anguish, lamentation, sorrow), しょうしん (anxiety, burning oneself, cowardly, heart failure, heartbreak, humble position, impatience, promotion, rising in rank, self-immolation, timid), しゅうしょう (agitation, all night long, bedridden, frustration, sorrow), なげき (lamentation), たん (.245 acres, 300 tsubo, coveting, lamentation, phlegm, roll of cloth, sigh), つうたん (deep regret). (various references) | |
Korean | 비탄 (heartache, heartbreak). (various references) | |
Manx | seaghyn (affliction, grieving, sorrow), guiy boght (humbling defeat), graue (carve, engrave). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sorg (dejection, sadness, sorrow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iefgray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pesar (affliction, balance, chagrin, distress, dolor, dolour, load, measure, ordeal, pain, ponder, regret, repentance, rue, sadness, scale, sorrow, trial, trouble, weigh, weigh out, weigh up, weight, woe), dor (ache, affliction, ailment, anguish, bale, dolor, dolour, ill feeling, pain, sore, soreness, sorrow, sufferance, suffering, teen, teener, trouble). (various references) | |
Romanian | supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), obidã (affliction, humiliation, sorrow, vexation), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, distress, evil, furnace, gall, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, mischief, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), milã (alms, charity, commiseration, compassion, goodwill, it is pitiful, lenity, love, mercy, mile, pity, remorse, Ruth, sparing), mâhnire (affliction, desolation, despondency, dismay, distress, sadness, sorrow, trouble), jale (dejection, despair, gloom, groans, mourning, sage, sorrow, wailing, woe), foc (affliction, Ardor, ardour, arson, blaze, bonfire, brunt, conflagration, discharge, fire, firing, glow, heat, ingle, jib, light, round, shot, spirit), durere (ache, bale, burden, complaint, dolour, hurt, mourning, pain, pinch, Ruth, sorrow, suffering, torture, trouble, woe), dor (hankering, longing, sorrow, wish, woe), dezolare (desolation, sorrow), banat (accusation, grudge, reproach), amãrãciune (bitter, bitterness, gall, poignancy, sorrow, vinegar, Wormwood), alean (longing, melancholy, sorrow, yearning), întristare (chagrin, sadness, sorrow). (various references) | |
Russian | горе (distress, dole, dolour, misery, mourning, pain, sorrow, teen, tribulation, woe). (various references) | |
Scottish | smuairean (dejection), leòn (afflict, affliction, grieve, hurt, wound), dòlas (mourning, woe), cantal, campar (uneasiness, vexation), brón, bròn (sorrow), aimheal (vexation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tuga (affliction, distress, heartache, melancholy, ruth, sadness, sorrow), jad (chagrin, sorrow, squalor, woe), bol (ache, aching, affliction, anguish, dolor, dolour, misery, pain, pang, wrench), beda (calamity, destitution, misery, pauperism, squalor), žalost (affliction, bereavement, chagrin, distress, mourning, regret, sorrow). (various references) | |
Spanish | pesar (balance, enter, load, perpend, press, regret, scale, sit, sorrow, turn the scales, weigh, weigh on, weigh out, weigh up). (various references) | |
Swedish | bedrövelse (affliction, dejection, gloom, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness), sorg (care, concern, distress, heartache, heartbreak, mourning, pain, sadness, sorrow), smärta (ache, aggrieve, anguish, distress, hurt, pain, pang, smart, twinge, wrench). (various references) | |
Thai | ปัญหา (case, issue, malady, riddle), ความเศร้าโศก (dolor, dolour, mopes, ruefulness, ruffianism). (various references) | |
Turkish | gam (gamut, scale, sol-fa, sorrow, woe), keder (damp, dole, dolefulness, dolor, dolour, dreariness, gloominess, heartbreak, low spirits, plaintiveness, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), aci (acerbic, ache, affliction, annoyance, bitter, dejection, disappointment, pain, sadness, sorrow), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrow, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, damp, dejection, desolation, distress, disturbance, fret, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hasratvtukatlyk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | горе (affliction, calamity, distress, grame, rue, smart, tears, teen, woe), прикрість (affliction, annoyance, awkwardness, disappointment, ire, nuisance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thất bại (clinker, unsuccessful), nỗi thương tiếc gặp tai hoạ, nỗi sầu khổ, nỗi đau buồn (affliction, distress, heartache). (various references) | |
Welsh | graen (fear, gloss, grain, grievous, lustre, sad, ugly), gofid (sorrow, trouble), galar (mourning, sorrow), hiraeth (homesickness, nostalgia, yearning), dolur (ailment, sore), codded (anger), brwyn (sadness), bariaeth (evil, wrath), argyllaeth (mourning), anhyfrydwch (unpleasantness), alaeth (grievous, lamentation, sad, sorrow, sorrowful, wailing), afar (sorrow), aeth (fear, pain, shock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ægrimonia, contritio, contritione, contritionem, contritiones, contritionis, dole, doleas, doleat, dolebant, dolebat, dolebit, dolebitis, dolebunt, dolens, dolentes, dolentium, doleo, doleri, doles, dolet, doletis, dolor, dolore, dolorem, dolores, dolori, doloribus, doloris, dolorum, doluerunt, dolui, doluistis, doluit, gravare, luctu, luctum, luctus, maeror, maeror meror, maerore, maeroribus, maeroris, maestitia, mæstitia, moeror. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | dolus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hearm. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | grief. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Orgh patri uioV afrwn kai odunh th tekoush autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ira patris filius stultus et dolor matris quae genuit eum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The wrathe of the fader a sone fol; the sorewe of the modir that gat hym. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang anak nga buangbuang maoy kasubo sa iyang amahan. Ug kapaitan niadtong nanganak kaniya. |
| Chinese | 愚 昧 子 使 父 親 愁 煩 、 使 母 親 憂 苦 。 |
| Croatian | Briga je ocu bezuman sin i žalost roditeljki svojoj. |
| Danish | Tåbelig Søn er sin Faders Sorg, Kvide for hende, som fødte ham. |
| Dutch | Een zotte zoon is een verdriet voor zijn vader, en bittere droefheid voor degene, die hem gebaard heeft. |
| Finnish | Tyhmä poika on isällensä suruksi ja synnyttäjällensä mielihaikeaksi. |
| French | Un fils insensé fait le chagrin de son père, Et l`amertume de celle qui l`a enfanté. |
| German | Ein törichter Sohn ist seines Vaters Trauern und Betrübnis der Mutter, die ihn geboren hat. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Yon timoun ki san konprann, se chagren pou papa l', se gwo lapenn pou manman l' ki fè l'. |
| Hungarian | Búsulása az õ atyjának a bolond fiú, és az õ szülõjének keserûsége. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Anak yang bodoh menyusahkan ayahnya, dan menyedihkan hati ibunya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seorang anak bodoh menjadi kedukaan kepada bapanya, dan kepahitan kepada ibunya, yang telah memperanakkan dia. |
| Italian | Un figlio stolto è un tormento per il padre e un'amarezza per colei che lo ha partorito. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko te tamaiti whakaarokore he mea whakapouri i tona papa, he mea whakakawa i te ngakau o tona whaea. |
| Norwegian | En uforstandig sønn er en gremmelse for sin far og en bitter sorg for henne som fødte ham. |
| Portuguese | O filho insensato é tristeza para seu, pai, e amargura para quem o deu à luz. |
| Rumanian | Un fiu nebun aduce necaz tatqlui squ, wi amqrqciune celei ce l -a nqscut. - |
| Russian | зМХРЩК УЩО--ДПУБДБ ПФГХ УЧПЕНХ Й ПЗПТЮЕОЙЕ ДМС НБФЕТЙ УЧПЕК. |
| Spanish | El hijo necio causa enojo a su padre y amargura a la que le dio a luz. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grief": griefs. (additional references) | |
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"Grief" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gariff, gief, giif, giraf, girf, giried, Graef, Graeff, grafe, greec, greef, Greeff, gref, greff, greif, greiv, grie, grieb, gried, Griefen, griefs, grieg, griel, Griem, grier, Gries, griev, griex, grif, grife, Grifel, grige, grike, griwe, grufe, gryf, Gryff, gtriii, igried, Juryeff, Rieff, trief. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grief" (pronounced grē"f) |
| 3 | -r ē" f | brief, debrief, reef, Reif. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-r" | |
-1 letter: fire, frig, reif, rife. | |
-2 letters: erg, fer, fie, fig, fir, gie, ire, ref, reg, rei, rif, rig. | |
-3 letters: ef, er, if, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-r" | |
+1 letter: figure, finger, fridge, fringe, griefs, griffe. | |
+2 letters: fearing, feigner, fighter, figured, figurer, figures, fingers, firebug, firedog, flinger, foggier, foreign, forgive, fragile, freeing, freight, fridges, frigate, frigged, fringed, fringes, fuggier, giraffe, goofier, griffes, grifted, grifter, gulfier, gunfire, kerfing, reefing, reffing, refight, refugia. | |
+3 letters: argufied, argufier, argufies, befinger, befringe, briefing, dirgeful, driftage, feigners, ferriage, ferrying, feruling, fevering, fidgeter, figeater, fighters, figurate, figurers, figurine, filagree, filigree, filmgoer, finagler, fingered, fingerer, firebugs, firedogs, firefang, fireplug, flaggier, fledgier, fleering, flingers, florigen, forewing, forgiven, forgiver, forgives, freaking, freezing, freights, freshing, fretting, frigates, frighted, frighten, fringier, froggier, froglike, fruitage, gasifier, gentrify, giftware, giraffes, grifters, gruffier, gunfires, hangfire, infringe, offering, prefight, refacing, refights, refigure, refiling, refining, refiring, refixing, reflying, refrying, refuging, refugium, refusing, refuting, reifying, uglifier, wafering. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Derived from | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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