heartbroken

English

Etymology

From heart +‎ broken.

Adjective

heartbroken (comparative more heartbroken, superlative most heartbroken)

Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.
When he told me he didn't want to see me anymore, I was heartbroken.

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

Derived terms

Translations

suffering form grief

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)

Anagrams

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