BEREAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bereaved mean? 

• BEREAVED (noun)
  The noun BEREAVED has 1 sense:

1. a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved

  Familiarity information: BEREAVED used as a noun is very rare.

• BEREAVED (adjective)
  The adjective BEREAVED has 1 sense:

1. sorrowful through loss or deprivation

  Familiarity information: BEREAVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEREAVED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has suffered the death of someone they loved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bereaved; bereaved person

Context example:

the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of

Hypernyms ("bereaved" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

• BEREAVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation

Synonyms:

bereaved; bereft; grief-stricken; grieving; mourning; sorrowing

Context example:

bereft of hope

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

 Context examples 

A small but well-kept house in the outskirts of the town sheltered the bereaved mother.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)