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1. heartbreaking
adjective. ['ˈhɑːrtˌbreɪkɪŋ'] causing or marked by grief or anguish.
Antonyms
Etymology
- breaking (English)
- heart (English)
- herte (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Heartbreaking
- aching
- antismoking
- antismoking
- asking
- attacking
- blocking
- booking
- braking
- breaking
- bucking
- carjacking
- caulking
- chalking
- checking
- choking
- chucking
- clanking
- clicking
- cloaking
- clocking
Sentences with heartbreaking
1. Verb, gerund or present participle
The death of a pet can be just as heartbreaking as any other death.
2. Adjective
The loss of a mother is an undeniably heartbreaking event.
Quotes about heartbreaking
1. I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity.
- Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE
2. It was heartfelt, it was heartbreaking. It was extreme joy, it was bone-crushing grief. It was fiery hot, it was icy-cold. It was true love sprouting... it was true love dying.It's like we were both trying to hold onto something that was slipping through our fingers, and we didn't understand why.
- S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless
3. Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.
- Tahereh Mafi