heartbroken

English

Etymology

From heart +‎ broken.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

heartbroken (comparative more heartbroken, superlative most heartbroken)

1. Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.

   Synonyms: brokenhearted, inconsolable, forlorn, despairing, dejected, disconsolate, distraught, devastated, wretched, grief-stricken, discouraged

   When he told me he didn't want to see me anymore, I was heartbroken.

Derived terms

• heartbrokenly
• heartbrokenness

 

Translations

suffering from grief

• Arabic: كَسِير الْقَلْب (kasīr al-qalb)
• Bulgarian: съкрушен (bg) (sǎkrušen), угнетен (bg) (ugneten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心碎 (zh) (xīnsuì)

• Faroese: hjartabrotin
• Finnish: murheen murtama, surun murtama, murheissaan (adverb), murheellinen (fi)
• German: tief betrübt, untröstlich (de)
• Irish: croíbhriste
• Malagasy: vaky fo
• Maori: pūkatokato, pākatokato
• Swedish: hjärtekrossad (sv)
• Tagalog: nagluluksa

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