Word Study
heartlessness |
heartlet |
heartlings |
heartpea |
heartquake |
heartrending
| heartrot
| hearts
| hearts-and-flowers
| heartsease
| heartseed
heartrending
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective heartrending has 1 sense
- heartrending(s = adj.all) grievous, heartbreaking - causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
CIDE DICTIONARY
heartrending, a.
Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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
For further exploring for "heartrending" in Webster Dictionary Online
