Usually means: Causing intense grief or sorrow.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word heartrending:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. heartrending: Merriam-Webster
  2. heartrending: Vocabulary.com
  3. Heartrending, heartrending: Wordnik
  4. heartrending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. heartrending: Wiktionary
  6. heartrending: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. heartrending: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Heartrending, heartrending: Dictionary.com
  9. heartrending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Heartrending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. heartrending: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. heartrending: Rhymezone
  13. Heartrending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. heartrending: FreeDictionary.org
  15. heartrending: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. heartrending: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. heartrending: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heartrending)

▸ adjective:  That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
▸ adjective:  That elicits deep sympathy.

Similar:
grievous, heartbreaking, sorrowful, heart-rending, heart-breaking, heartwrenching, heart-wrenching, tormentuous, excruciating, harrowing, more...

Opposite:
heartwarming

Types:
tragic, sad, pathetic, mournful, heartbreaking, more...

Adjectives:
most, such, less, deep, real, poor, pitiful, gloomy, overpowering

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Similar:
grievous, heartbreaking, sorrowful, heart-rending, heart-breaking, heartwrenching, heart-wrenching, tormentuous, excruciating, harrowing, more...

Opposite:
heartwarming

Types:
tragic, sad, pathetic, mournful, heartbreaking, more...

Adjectives:
most, such, less, deep, real, poor, pitiful, gloomy, overpowering



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