grief
Noun
- Intense sorrow, especially caused by loss or suffering.
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
- something that causes great unhappiness
- "her death was a great grief to John"
- Suffering, hardship.
- Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
- A cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; a trial.
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.
Examples
- His opponent’s bingo caused him immense grief, but he vowed to bounce back.
- She was worn out from so much grief.
- The betrayal caused Jeff grief.
- The neighbour's teenage give me grief every time they see me.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.
Synonyms
brokenheartedness, heartache, heartbreak, sorrow, afflict, affliction, aggrievance, aggrieve, anguish, atray, badger, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, blueness, blues, bug, cag, chevy, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despondency, difficulty, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, engrieve, forlornness, give someone grief, grame, grief, grievance, harass, hardship, harrow, harry, heartsore, hound, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, pain, persecute, pester, pick at, plague, prosternation, regret, rend, rue, ruth, sadness, smart, sorrowfulness, torment, torture, tristfulness, trouble, undelight, unhappiness, vex, vexation, woe, woefare, wretchedness, wring, wrong
Scrabble Score: 9
grief: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrief: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grief: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary