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noun
Suffering, hardship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: difficulty, trouble, anguish, rend, distress, grief, hardship, pain, smart, torment, torture
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: dejection, misery, blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, woe, woefare, wretchedness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hardship, sorrow, affliction, aggrievance, distress, grief, grievance, misery, ruth, sadness, undelight, vexation, woe, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so, often through acts of destruction or vandalism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Topics: games, gaming
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: badger, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, persecute, dog, besiege, bug, devil, beset, chevy, give someone grief, harass, harry, hound, pester, pick at, plague, vex, afflict, lacerate, aggrieve, atray, cag, distress, engrieve, grame, harrow, torment, trouble, rend, wring
Antonyms: none provided
noun
something that causes great unhappiness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sorrow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: negative stimulus
noun
intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartedness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sorrow
Narrower terms: dolor, dolour
History
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
Across languages
229 source translations are retained for this English entry.
