grieving

noun. droplets from eyes, often caused by emotion

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., "causing pain," present participle adjective from grieve. Meaning "feeling pain" is from 1807.

Strange to see him struggle with his disappointment like a grieving child!

It was a long, grieving sound, like a sigh—almost like a sob.

Sad and mournful are thy ways, Grieving, wailing, Autumn days!

And who are you, tell me that, who instead of grieving for yourself, are grieving for others?

She is grieving us deeply, and that is why I am sure that she is not well.

Grieving will not mitigate our lot, nay, it will add to its burden.

Never mind about grieving me;—I am not in love with him;—let me hear all about it!

She would not do it, for fear of grieving my father, who was absent.

In silence, therefore, they heaped the bodies on the pile, grieving at heart.

She is grieving to lose her chief friend and companion, Miss Derwent.