GRIEVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grieving mean? 

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

1. sorrowful through loss or deprivation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIEVING (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 

Miss Elliot, do you remember our walking together at Lyme, and grieving for him?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was, and wishing for what could never be.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Upon my soul, he added, I believe it is nothing more; and so I often tell my mother, when she is grieving about it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Beth kept on, with only slight relapses into idleness or grieving.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I heard a very warm debate between two professors, about the most commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without grieving the subject.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But it is useless grieving.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I joined them unexpectedly a day or two before the intended elopement, and then Georgiana, unable to support the idea of grieving and offending a brother whom she almost looked up to as a father, acknowledged the whole to me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I never passed within view of it without admiring its situation, and grieving that no one should live in it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Anne had gone unhappy to school, grieving for the loss of a mother whom she had dearly loved, feeling her separation from home, and suffering as a girl of fourteen, of strong sensibility and not high spirits, must suffer at such a time; and Miss Hamilton, three years older than herself, but still from the want of near relations and a settled home, remaining another year at school, had been useful and good to her in a way which had considerably lessened her misery, and could never be remembered with indifference.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Elinor, with a very heavy heart, aware of the pain she was going to communicate, and perceiving, by Marianne's letter, how ill she had succeeded in laying any foundation for it, then sat down to write her mother an account of what had passed, and entreat her directions for the future; while Marianne, who came into the drawing-room on Mrs. Jennings's going away, remained fixed at the table where Elinor wrote, watching the advancement of her pen, grieving over her for the hardship of such a task, and grieving still more fondly over its effect on her mother.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)