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heavy-hearted

heavy-hearted adjective: sad, melancholic.

Adjective

heavy-hearted (comparative more heavy-hearted, superlative most heavy-hearted)

  1. (idiomatic) sad, melancholic.
    • The mourners left the funeral heavy-hearted and silent.
    • He gave a heavy-hearted sigh.

heavy-hearted meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

heavy-hearted in Tamil

மனத்துயரால் வாடுகிற

heavy-hearted in Bengali

দুঃখিত, বিষণ্ণ

heavy-hearted in Malayalam

sorrowful, melancholy, sad
ഹൃദയഭാരമുള്ള, കഠിനദുഃഖാർത്തനായ, ദുഃഖഭാരമുള്ള, ദുഃഖഭാരം പേറുന്ന, ദുഃഖഭാരം ചുമക്കുന്ന, ദുഃഖഭാരം വഹിക്കുന്ന

heavy-hearted in Kannada

ವಿಷಣ್ಣ, ಭಾರ ಹೃದಯದ

Synonyms of heavy-hearted

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Forms of heavy-hearted

comparativemore heavy-hearted
superlativemost heavy-hearted

Words formed from heavy-hearted

Questions about heavy-hearted

What does heavy-hearted mean?
Heavy-hearted means sad, melancholic.
What is heavy-hearted in Tamil?
Heavy-hearted in Tamil is மனத்துயரால் வாடுகிற. See Heavy-hearted meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heavy-hearted?
Heavy-hearted is an adjective.

Words near heavy-hearted in the dictionary

  1. heavy-half
  2. heavy-handed
  3. heavy-handedly
  4. heavy-handedness
  5. heavy-headed
  6. heavy-hearted
  7. heavy-heartedly
  8. heavy-heartedness
  9. heavy-hitter
  10. heavy-hitters
  11. heavy-lidded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heavy-hearted (page history and authors); heavy-hearted (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heavy-hearted (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heavy-hearted (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); heavy-hearted (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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