bereaved person

1. 1.

   a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved

   “the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of”

   Synonymsbereaved

   Broaderperson

Questions about bereaved person

What does bereaved person mean?

bereaved person means "a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved".

What is another word for bereaved person?

Close synonyms include bereaved. 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 person a common word?

bereaved person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.