Search Result for "heartrending":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. causing or marked by grief or anguish;
- Example: "a grievous loss"
- Example: "a grievous cry"
- Example: "her sigh was heartbreaking"
- Example: "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
[syn: grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Heartrending \Heart"rend`ing\ (-r[e^]nd`[i^]ng), a. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "heartrending": affecting, afflictive, agonizing, calamitous, consuming, desolating, dire, distressing, doleful, excruciating, grievous, harrowing, heartbreaking, heartsickening, heartwounding, lamentable, moving, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, racking, regrettable, rending, tormenting, torturous, touching, unfortunate
