HEARTBREAKING Synonyms

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• causing or marked by grief or anguish

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shockingly brutal or cruel

• extremely painful

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• causing distress or worry or anxiety

• bad; unfortunate

• filled with or evoking sadness

• extremely painful

• extremely painful

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• expressing sorrow

• filled with or evoking sadness

• so strong as to be irresistible

• very strong; urgently felt

• causing physical or psychological pain

• causing misery or pain or distress

• exceptionally bad or displeasing

• causing physical discomfort

• deserving or inciting pity

• inspiring mixed contempt and pity

• bad; unfortunate

• deserving or inciting pity

• expressing sorrow

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• filled with or marked by tears

• showing sorrow

• of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy

• very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction