Usually means: Profoundly sad, causing emotional pain.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. heartbreaking: Merriam-Webster
  2. heartbreaking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heartbreaking: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heartbreaking: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heartbreaking: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heartbreaking, heartbreaking: Wordnik
  7. heartbreaking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heartbreaking: Wiktionary
  9. heartbreaking: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. heartbreaking: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Heartbreaking, heartbreaking: Dictionary.com
  12. heartbreaking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Heartbreaking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Heartbreaking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. heartbreaking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. heartbreaking: Rhymezone
  17. Heartbreaking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. heartbreaking: FreeDictionary.org
  19. heartbreaking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. heartbreaking: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. heartbreaking: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. heartbreaking: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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▸ adjective:  That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
▸ noun:  The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.

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

Opposite:
heartwarming, heart-warming

Types:
unrequited love, love triangle, cheating, death, more...

Phrases:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, heartbreaking in a good way, heartbreaking difficult, heartbreaking loneliness, opposite of heartbreaking, more...

Adjectives:
most, little, profound, greatest, damn, worst, downright

Colors:
    crimson,     burgundy,     maroon,     scarlet,     wine, more...



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

Opposite:
heartwarming, heart-warming

Types:
unrequited love, love triangle, cheating, death, more...

Phrases:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, heartbreaking in a good way, heartbreaking difficult, heartbreaking loneliness, opposite of heartbreaking, funny and heartbreaking, more...

Adjectives:
most, little, profound, greatest, damn, worst, downright

Colors:
    crimson,     burgundy,     maroon,     scarlet,     wine, more...



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