Impressed vs Grieved - What's the difference?
impressed | grieved | Related terms |
strongly affected, especially favourably
stamped, under pressure
compelled to serve in a military force
confiscated by force or authority
(impress)
(grieve)
To cause sorrow or distress to.
* Bible, Eph. iv. 30
* Cowper
To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
To experience grief.
(archaic) To harm.
To submit or file a grievance.
* 2009 D'Amico, Rob , Editor, Texas Teacher , published by Texas AFT (affiliate of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO); "Austin classified employees gain due process rights", April 2009, p14:
(obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
(chiefly, Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
* Sir Walter Scott
Impressed is a related term of grieved.
As verbs the difference between impressed and grieved
is that impressed is (impress) while grieved is (grieve).As an adjective impressed
is strongly affected, especially favourably.impressed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* unimpressedVerb
(head)See also
* imprestgrieved
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grieve
English
Etymology 1
From the conjugated forms of (etyl) .Verb
(griev)- Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.
- The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.
- to grieve one's fate
- Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the [...] Board of Trustees.
Derived terms
* grieved * griever * grievinglyEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve .