heartbreaking
/hˈɑɹtbɹˌeɪkɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: heartrending, heartwrenching"
- "Things went well with the clearing on Friday, but by Saturday, February 3, a 70 m.p.h. blizzard set in, and against such heartbreaking conditions, although an effort was made with the plough to keep open the sections cleared on the previous day, ground was gradually lost, [...]."
- "But even with these caveats, it remains a stunning and heartbreaking piece of cinema that strikes a particular chord with LGBTQ+ viewers."
- "One could argue that Eliot's "great heartbreakings" were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more heartbreaking (comparative)
most heartbreaking (superlative)
heart-breaking (alternative)
heartbreakings (plural)