All heartbreaking synonyms
heart·break·ing
H h adj heartbreaking
- distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- sad — Systems Analysis Definition
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- tragic — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
- unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
- affecting — If you describe something such as a story or a piece of music as affecting, you think it is good because it makes you feel a strong emotion, especially sadness or pity.
- agonizing — Something that is agonizing causes you to feel great physical or mental pain.
- bitter — In a bitter argument or conflict, people argue very angrily or fight very fiercely.
- cheerless — Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- joyless — without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war.
- lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- moving — capable of or having movement: a moving object.
- pitiful — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- regrettable — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
- afflictive — causing pain or misery
- heart-rending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
adjective heartbreaking
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- heartrending — causing or expressing intense grief, anguish, or distress.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
- agonising — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.