Synonyms for heartbroken

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hahrt-broh-kuh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrtˌbroʊ kən

Définition of heartbroken

Origin : 1580s, present participle of heartbreak.

adj melancholy

Example sentences :

On the very threshold I stood arrested by that heartbroken cry of his.
Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini

Am I not heartbroken and wretched, without a hope or a future?
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

The Colonel was heartbroken, and the officers were savage and sullen.
Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling

A third time he struggled, weary, heartbroken, over that trail.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

Then came the reporters for copy which only this heartbroken woman could give.
Extract from : « Susan B. Anthony » by Alma Lutz

I know she was heartbroken at parting with him, and yet she never showed it.
Extract from : « Saint Bartholomew's Eve » by G. A. Henty

This world is God's prodigal son, and He is heartbroken over it.
Extract from : « Quiet Talks on Power » by S.D. Gordon

She loaded the Vigilantes with imprecations, and showed the most heartbroken grief.
Extract from : « The Story of the Outlaw » by Emerson Hough

It was a dreadful, dismal, heartbroken howl that echoed back from the walls.
Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson

"But she sent a carving-knife at me first," said the heartbroken husband.
Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray

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