Definition of "grief-stricken" []

• Sorrowful through loss or deprivation (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The author imagines Titania, the fairy queen of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as the grief-stricken fairy mother of an adopted human child who has died."
• "But the person who's really staring a hole through Bennett is Rosie's grief-stricken father."
• "Now all reason up seems meaningless to him: a feeling not odd to a grief-stricken, nonetheless here related to a dignified dried which Macbeth has combined as his middle landscape."