heartbreaking
heartbreaking adjective: that causes great grief, anguish or distress.
Adjective
heartbreaking (comparative more heartbreaking, superlative most heartbreaking)
- That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
- Near-synonyms: heartrending, heartwrenching
- Things went well with the clearing on Friday, but by Saturday, February 3, a 70 m.p.h. blizzard set in, and against such heartbreaking conditions, although an effort was made with the plough to keep open the sections cleared on the previous day, ground was gradually lost, [...].1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177
- Synonyms:
- heartrending, heartwrenching
Noun
heartbreaking (plural heartbreakings)
- The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.
- One could argue that Eliot's "great heartbreakings" were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality.1999, Karen Gayton Swisher, John Tippeconnic, Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education, page 17
heartbreaking meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
heartbreaking in Hindi
- heartbreaking
- मर्मघातक marmaghātak
heartbreaking in Marathi
- हृदय पिळवटून टाकणारी
heartbreaking in Bengali
- হৃদয় বিদারক
heartbreaking in Telugu
- హృదయ విదారకమైనది, హృదయ విదారకమైన
More languagesFewer languages
- heartbreaking in Malayalam
- ഹൃദയഭേദകമായ hr̥dayabhēdakamāya
- heartbreaking in Kannada
- ಹೃದಯ ವಿದ್ರಾವಕ, ಹೃದಯವಿದ್ರಾವಕ
- heartbreaking in Gujarati
- હ્રદયસ્પર્શી, હૃદયવિદારક
- heartbreaking in Odia
- ହୃଦଯ଼ ବିଦାରକ
- heartbreaking in Vietnamese
- đau lòng
Synonyms of heartbreaking
Forms of heartbreaking
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more heartbreaking |
| superlative | most heartbreaking |
| alternative form | heart-breaking |
| Noun | |
| plural | heartbreakings |
Origin of heartbreaking
From heart + breaking.
Words formed from heartbreaking
Questions about heartbreaking
- What does heartbreaking mean?
- Heartbreaking means that causes great grief, anguish or distress.
- What is heartbreaking in Hindi?
- Heartbreaking in Hindi is मर्मघातक (marmaghātak). See Heartbreaking meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is heartbreaking?
- Heartbreaking can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near heartbreaking in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: heartbreaking (page history and authors); मर्मघातक (Hindi) (page history and authors); heartbreaking (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreaking (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreaking (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreaking (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreaking (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); heartbreaking (Odia, 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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