Definition for Bereavement:

• The act of bereaving, or the state of being bereaved; an afflictive loss.

Synonyms for Bereavement:

• n.

  •
  • fatality,
  • death throes,
  • demise.
  •death (noun)
  • finis,
  • necrosis,
  • after life,
  • obliteration,
  • eternal rest,
  • finises.
  •death; loss (noun)
  • deprivation,
  • distress,
  • tribulation,
  • misfortune,
  • affliction,
  • sorrow.
  •grief (noun)
  • de solations,
  • re-morses,
  • dis-comfort,
  • re morses,
  • bemoanings,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-tresses,
  • de-solations,
  • bewailings,
  • lamentings,
  • re morse,
  • dis quiets,
  • be moaning,
  • repinings,
  • dis-quiets,
  • dis tress,
  • de-solation,
  • in-felicities,
  • dis tresses,
  • re-morse,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis-quiet,
  • re-pining,
  • deplorings,
  • un happinesses,
  • be-wailing,
  • dis comforts,
  • re pining,
  • un-happinesses,
  • dis quiet,
  • be-moaning,
  • be wailing,
  • in felicities,
  • dis-comforts,
  • de solation,
  • un-happiness,
  • in-felicity,
  • in felicity.
  •loss (noun)
  • losing,
  • losses,
  • losings,
  • retardation,
  • misplacement.
  •mourning (noun)
  • achings,
  • languishings,
  • grievings,
  • sorrowings,
  • pinings.
  •state (noun)
  • bereavement.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • deathly,
  • rigor mortis,
  • deathbed,
  • morbidity,
  • bereaved,
  • death rate,
  • death toll,
  • dying,
  • Death Certificate,
  • death rattle,
  • the bereaved,
  • sympathy card,
  • mortality,
  • last words.
  •
  • in extremis,
  • flatline,
  • quietus,
  • morbid,
  • posthumous,
  • death sentence,
  • ghoulish.
  •
  • D.
  •
  • passing.
  •
  • grave,
  • lose.
  •
  • end.
  •Other relevant words:
  • departure,
  • ruin,
  • perdition,
  • Disherison,
  • dissolution,
  • Relieving,
  • desolation,
  • melancholy,
  • Divestment,
  • decease,
  • obit,
  • disappearance,
  • forfeiture,
  • forfeit,
  • cost,
  • remembrance,
  • injury,
  • respect,
  • abridgment,
  • dispossession,
  • damage,
  • chastening,
  • taking away,
  • despair,
  • losing streak,
  • anguish,
  • fall,
  • waste,
  • distraint,
  • curtailment,
  • release,
  • denudation,
  • detriment,
  • woe,
  • misery,
  • robbery,
  • passing away,
  • loser,
  • denial,
  • stripping,
  • heartache,
  • lament,
  • dolour,
  • sacrifice,
  • harm,
  • destruction,
  • confiscation,
  • disentitlement,
  • privation,
  • woefulness,
  • squandering,
  • rest,
  • eviction,
  • ill,
  • debit,
  • despondency,
  • spoliation,
  • expense,
  • total loss,
  • sadness,
  • chastisement,
  • despoilment,
  • failure,
  • repentance,
  • riddance,
  • sequestration,
  • disburdening,
  • Deprivement,
  • defeat.

Paraphrases for Bereavement:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Dies.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    grieving.
  • Proper noun, singular
    mourning, grief.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    grieving, mourning, loss, sorrow, grief.

Antonyms for Bereavement:

• n.

  • death; loss
    happiness, health, comfort.
  • Other antonyms:
    consolation, relief, boon, gratification, pleasure, good luck, success, prosperity, blessing, good fortune, joy, triumph.

Bereavement Sentence Examples:

• Ignorant and superstitious, he had that rare and masculine quality of soul which in the anguish of bereavement and on the verge of the unseen world remains proof against the appeal and against the terrors of a voice speaking with more than human authority.

• A handsome girl of six years, unconscious of her bereavement, shocks the author by her actions.

Hyponym for Bereavement:

• n.

  • state
    sorrow, sorrowfulness, sadness.