heartbreak
UK/ˈhɑːt.bɹeɪk//ˈhɑɹt.bɹeɪk/
heartbreak noun: overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.
Noun
heartbreak (countable and uncountable, plural heartbreaks)
- Overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.
- So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly...2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- Synonyms:
- broken heart
heartbreak meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
heartbreak in Hindi
- दिल टूटना
heartbreak in Tamil
- நெஞ்சை பிளக்கும் வேதனை, கடுந்துயரம், துக்கம்
heartbreak in Bengali
- হৃদয় ভেঙে যাওয়া
heartbreak in Telugu
- హృదయ విదారకం, హృదయ విదారకము
More languagesFewer languages
- heartbreak in Malayalam
- നെഞ്ചുപൊട്ടൽ, ആത്മനൊമ്പരം, ഹൃദയവേദന, മനോവേന
- heartbreak in Kannada
- ಕಡುಮರುಕ, ಅಳಲು, ಕಳಲಿಕೆ
- heartbreak in Punjabi
- ਦਿਲ ਦਾ ਟੁੱਟਣਾ, ਦਿਲ ਟੁੱਟਣਾ
- heartbreak in Gujarati
- હાર્ટબ્રેક, હૃદયભંગ
- heartbreak in Nepali
- हृदय विदारक
Examples of heartbreak in a sentence
- There will be heartbreak later, inevitably, but there is happiness for now.
- Distancing himself from emotional entanglements or investment, which could only lead to unbearable heartbreak.
- I keep putting off my Solasmance, because I have an aversion to heartbreak.
Synonyms of heartbreak
Forms of heartbreak
| plural | heartbreaks |
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Origin of heartbreak
From heart + break. Compare heartache § Etymology.
Words formed from heartbreak
Phrases with heartbreak
Questions about heartbreak
- What does heartbreak mean?
- Heartbreak means overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.
- What is heartbreak in Hindi?
- Heartbreak in Hindi is दिल टूटना. See Heartbreak meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is heartbreak?
- Heartbreak is a noun.
- How do you pronounce heartbreak?
- Heartbreak is pronounced /ˈhɑːt.bɹeɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of heartbreak?
- The plural of heartbreak is heartbreaks.
Words near heartbreak in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heartbreak (page history and authors); heartbreak (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreak (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heartbreak (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreak (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreak (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); heartbreak (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heartbreak (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreak (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreak (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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