Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Overpowering with anguish; deeply afflictive; very distressing.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish
Examples
“A heartrending story written in heartrending style, compassionate and pinpoint accurate as usual.”
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“Stunning, charming, and heartrending is Michel Gagné's opening number, "Underworld," an entirely wordless piece about a brave little fox.”
“He described the subsequent scene as "heartrending," adding that, were it up to him, he "would remove every Indian tomorrow beyond the reach of the white men who, like vultures, are watching, ready to pounce upon their prey and strip them of everything they have.”
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“Delegates had no excuse for not doing everything possible to uplift the disadvantaged, because they knew the "heartrending" reality the poor experienced.”
“And so the department began to gear up for a long spell of defensive maneuvering, knowing exactly what kind of heartrending twaddle would be coming from the brave and fearless foot soldiers of the fifth estate.”
“I am quite sure," she said, with a kind of heartrending cheerfulness,”
“Paul Carey, who was Ernie Harwell's partner on Tigers broadcasts for 19 seasons, said it's "heartrending" to see Harwell deal with his terminal cancer.”
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“-- Paul Carey, who was Ernie Harwell's partner on Tigers broadcasts for 19 seasons, said it's "heartrending" to see Harwell deal with his terminal cancer.”
“Prosecutor: Juvenile sexual assault is 'heartrending”
“This auditory pulling of the ropes is capable of piercing and opening your reception to heartrending music.”
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Body Participles
Words formed by joining a body part to a present participle. Used as adjectives or nouns.
nail-biting, arm-twisting, backbreaking, finger licking, lip-smacking, bellyaching, gut-wrenching, head scratching, toe tapping, butt kicking, face saving, eyebrow-raising and 9 more...
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Sorrow is better than laughter; for b...
lachrymose, melancholic, sorrow, wail, mournful, sob, misery, wretchedness, anguish, agony, heartbreak, lament and 38 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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the name of the rose
pleasing words I encounter whilst reading umberto eco's novel of the same name.
matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers, compline, usurper, simoniac, heresiarch, malefactor and 230 more...
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toner's Words
contitute, flump, malice, agentivize, calumniate, deliberator, polder, disintermediating, disfluencies, parameterize, ulterior, nihonjinron and 86 more...
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