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heartbreaking

adj

Etymology

From heart + breaking.

Definitions

  1. That causes great grief, anguish or distress.

    • Near-synonyms: heartrending, heartwrenching
    • But even with these caveats, it remains a stunning and heartbreaking piece of cinema that strikes a particular chord with LGBTQ+ viewers.

  2. The breaking of a heart

    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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA