What does heartbreaking mean?

Definitions for heartbreaking
ˈhɑrtˌbreɪ kɪŋheart·break·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. grievous, heartbreaking, heartrendingadjective

    causing or marked by grief or anguish

    "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

Wiktionary

  1. heartbreakingnoun

    The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.

  2. heartbreakingadjective

    That causes great grief, anguish or distress.

Wikipedia

  1. heartbreaking

    A broken heart (also known as heartbreak or heartache) is a metaphor for the intense emotional stress or pain one feels at experiencing great and deep longing. The concept is cross-cultural, often cited with reference to unreciprocated or lost love.Failed romantic love can be extremely painful; people with a broken heart may succumb to depression, anxiety and, in more extreme cases, post-traumatic stress disorder.

ChatGPT

  1. heartbreaking

    Heartbreaking refers to causing intense sorrow, grief, or distress, often used to describe situations, events, or experiences that deeply upset or cause emotional pain. It can also refer to any circumstance that leads to great disappointment or emotional wounds.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Heartbreakingadjective

    causing overpowering sorrow

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heartbreaking in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heartbreaking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of heartbreaking in a Sentence

  1. Peter Hotez:

    What you're doing is your condemning a whole generation of adolescents to neurologic injury totally unnecessarily, it's just absolutely heartbreaking and beyond frustrating for vaccine scientists like Peter Hotez to see this happen.

  2. Prosecutor Ronald Gale:

    This has been a very emotional case, and the evidence and testimony has been by turns gruesome and disturbing and just heartbreaking.

  3. Amy Duggar:

    It’s heartbreaking and disgusting and evil. It’s so evil. I want nothing to do with it.

  4. Maxim Serebryakov:

    The Stanford students all come from international backgrounds. The Stanford students've seen firsthand how people treat you differently just because of the way you speak, it's heartbreaking sometimes.

  5. James Bible:

    They're absolutely positive that that is their brother and their son, this family has listened to it repeatedly over and over again in heartbreaking fashion.

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