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) Indonesian: patah hati (id) Irish: croíbhriste Malagasy: vaky fo Maori: pūkatokato, pākatokato, tarariki Swedish: hjärtekrossad (sv) Tagalog: nagluluksa Thai: ตรอมใจ, ช้ำใจ (th) Turkish: kalbi kırık (tr)

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