Bereaved Synonyms

bĭ-rēvd
A person who has suffered the death of someone they loved
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bereaved person
Sorrowful through loss or deprivation
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bereft
  2. grief-stricken
  3. grieving
  4. parentless
  5. mourning
  6. sorrowing

Bereaved Sentence Examples

  • Every dead soldier has a face, a story, and a bereaved family.

  • She is personified as a widowed princess, bereaved and desolate, sitting amid the ruins of her former joys, and brooding over her calamities.

  • During this time Rome was horrorstruck by the mysterious murder of the young duke of Gandia, and the bereaved pope mourned his son with the wildest grief.

  • Medical experts have claimed that bereaved parents who have recently lost a child are at a greater risk of suicide.

  • Many bereaved parents may not be avid scrapbookers and just the word alone may be intimidating.

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