The meaning of Mourning

noun

Severe mental or physical pain or suffering.

Usage examples:

She shut her eyes in anguish

verb

Be extremely distressed about something.

Usage examples:

I spent the next two weeks anguishing about whether i'd made the right decision

noun

A state of complete emptiness or destruction.

Usage examples:

The stony desolation of the desert

noun

The complete loss or absence of hope.

Usage examples:

A voice full of self-hatred and despair

verb

Lose or be without hope.

Usage examples:

We should not despair

noun

A feeling of being without hope or of not being able to improve a situation

Usage examples:

A few sad moments doesn’t imply feelings of despair., she flung up her arms in despair and wailed.,…

noun

Low spirits from loss of hope or courage; dejection.

Usage examples:

An air of despondency

noun

The quality of being unhappy, with no hope or enthusiasm

Usage examples:

A mood of despondency had set in., despondency about there is a general air of despondency about th…

noun

Benefit paid by the state to the unemployed.

Usage examples:

I was on the dole for three years

verb

Distribute shares of something.

Usage examples:

The scanty portions of food doled out to them

noun

Sorrow; mourning.

noun

Intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death.

Usage examples:

She was overcome with grief

noun

Very great sadness, esp. at the death of someone

Usage examples:

It took her years to get over her grief at the death of her mother., fig. i had no idea that forget…

verb

Feel intense sorrow.

Usage examples:

She grieved for her father

noun

An overseer, manager, or bailiff on a farm.

adjective

Feeling very sad because someone has died

Usage examples:

Grieving relatives

noun

Emotional anguish or grief, typically caused by the loss or absence of someone loved.

Usage examples:

The familiar pang of heartache

noun

The action of wailing in grief for a dead person.

Usage examples:

The keening of grieving mothers tore into an otherwise silent afternoon

adjective

(of a sound) prolonged and high-pitched, typically in a way that expresses grief or sorrow.

Usage examples:

A keening soprano voice

verb

Wail in grief for a dead person.

Usage examples:

The body of johnny was taken by his own people who keened over him

noun

A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.

Usage examples:

His mother's night-long laments for his father

verb

Express passionate grief about.

Usage examples:

He was lamenting the death of his infant daughter

verb

To express sadness and regret about something

Usage examples:

He lamented his students’ lack of interest in the classics., baker’s lament was that his schedule k…

noun

The passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.

Usage examples:

Scenes of lamentation

noun

Sadness and feeling sorry, or something that expresses these feelings

Usage examples:

For all the lamentations that schools do not teach the game, it is still played in some areas.

noun

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

Usage examples:

An air of melancholy surrounded him

adjective

Having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive.

Usage examples:

She felt a little melancholy

adjective

Feeling or expressing sadness

Usage examples:

A melancholy song, larry is in a very melancholy mood.

noun

A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.

Usage examples:

A man who had brought her nothing but misery

noun

Great unhappiness

Usage examples:

[ u ] with the rice harvest, hope is sprouting amid the misery.

noun

The condition or quality of being sad.

Usage examples:

A source of great sadness

noun

The feeling of being sad or unhappy

Usage examples:

There was a look of great sadness in his eyes.

noun

A period of seven days' formal mourning for the dead, beginning immediately after the funeral.

Usage examples:

She went to her sister's funeral and sat shiva

proper noun

A god associated with the powers of reproduction and dissolution.

noun

A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others.

Usage examples:

A bereaved person needs time to work through their sorrow

verb

Feel or display deep distress.

Usage examples:

A woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband

noun

A feeling of great sadness or regret, or something that causes this feeling

Usage examples:

[ u ] the english language does not contain the words to express the sorrow i feel.

verb

Feel or display deep distress.

Usage examples:

A woman had cried all night, sorrowing over the death of her husband

adjective

Feeling or displaying deep distress or sadness.

Usage examples:

The sorrowing widower found it hard to relate to his sons

verb

Present participle of sorrow

Usage examples:

For years she sorrowed over her missing son.

adjective

Crying with pain, grief, or anger.

Usage examples:

Wailing toddlers

verb

Utter a wail.

Usage examples:

Tina ran off wailing

verb

Present participle of wail

Usage examples:

The women gathered around the coffin and began to wail, as was the custom in the region., [ + speec…

adjective

Shedding tears.

Usage examples:

A victorian tombstone that depicted a weeping woman

verb

Shed tears.

Usage examples:

A grieving mother wept over the body of her daughter