mourning

deuil, chagrin

Profonde tristesse ressentie ou exprimée après un décès ou la perte de quelque chose d’important.

En anglais simple : Deep sadness felt or shown after someone dies or something important is lost.

• The news brought widespread mourning.
• His mourning for his wife affected every part of his life.
• They shared their mourning after losing their home.

Comment l'utiliser : mourning for someone/something (Her mourning for her father continued for months.)

Synonymes : grief, sorrow, grieving

Contraires : joy

Expressions courantes : deep mourning, mourning for someone, public mourning

deuil

Période après un décès durant laquelle on suit des coutumes exprimant le respect et la tristesse.

En anglais simple : A period after someone's death when people follow customs that show respect and sadness.

• The family is in mourning.
• The government declared three days of national mourning.
• During the period of mourning, all celebrations were canceled.

Comment l'utiliser : in mourning for someone (The family is in mourning for their grandmother.)

Synonymes : bereavement period

Expressions courantes : in mourning, national mourning, period of mourning

lamentation, affliction

Fait de ressentir ou de montrer une profonde tristesse ou un regret à propos de quelque chose.

En anglais simple : Feeling or showing deep sadness or regret about something.

• Her mourning over lost opportunities never ended.
• His poems are filled with mourning for his vanished youth.
• Their mourning over the defeat slowly gave way to hope.

Comment l'utiliser : mourning over something (His mourning over wasted opportunities lasted for years.)

Synonymes : lamentation, sorrow, grieving

Contraires : rejoicing

Expressions courantes : mourning over something, bitter mourning, endless mourning

vêtements de deuil, habit de deuil

Vêtements généralement noirs, portés traditionnellement pour exprimer sa tristesse après un décès.

En anglais simple : Clothes, usually black, traditionally worn to show sadness after someone's death.

• The widow wore black mourning.
• She put aside her mourning a year after his death.
• Her mourning included a long dress and a dark veil.

Synonymes : mourning clothes, mourning dress

Expressions courantes : wear mourning, black mourning, deep mourning