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Synonyms for heart-breaking

  • adjective

Most common

distressing heart-wrenching heart-rending saddening deplorable regrettable lamentable piteous

All synonyms

Adjective

heart-rending, heart-wrenching, saddening, sorrowful, grievous, distressing, lamentable, regrettable, piteous, deplorable, woeful, depressing, mournful, rueful, wretched

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    That causes great grief, anguish or distress.

    Near-synonyms: heartrending, heartwrenching

Related words

Other spellings
heartbreaking

Example sentences

  • distressing Yanni went through a distressing event.
  • saddening The indifference of Tom's obituary was saddening.
  • deplorable The roads of this city are in deplorable condition.
  • regrettable It is regrettable that you did not start earlier.

By length

6 letters
woeful2, rueful2
7 letters
piteous
8 letters
wretched2, grievous2, mournful2
9 letters
sorrowful3, saddening3
10 letters
depressing3, deplorable4, lamentable4
11 letters
distressing3, regrettable4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (woeful2 = 2 syllables).

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