bereaved

Other forms of bereaved

plural

bereaveds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bereaved

What does bereaved mean?

bereaved means "a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bereaved?

bereaved has 2 syllables: berea-ved. The stress falls on "ved". In IPA it is /bɚˈivd/.

What is another word for bereaved?

Close synonyms include bereaved person, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bereaved a common word?

bereaved is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.