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Examples of heartbroken in a Sentence
not as heartbroken over missing out on the trip to New York as I thought she would be
was utterly heartbroken when his pet dog died
Recent Examples of heartbroken from the Web
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At a hearing Tuesday, Baum turned and locked eyes with the teens’ heartbroken families.
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At a hearing Tuesday, Baum turned and locked eyes with the teens' heartbroken families.
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At a hearing Tuesday, Baum turned and locked eyes with the teens’ heartbroken families.
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An internal post reacting to the memo found employees angry and heartbroken that their teammates were sharing internal company discussions with the media.
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In addition to her heartbroken friends and coworkers, Brown leaves behind her daughter 14-year-old Zoe and a fiancé.
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The chicken tries to draw Taylor out, but Taylor is too heartbroken to talk.
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Leaned back on the bench with puffy red eyes, Colson looked heartbroken.
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This Is Us' second season may have ended last night, but heartbroken fans have something else to look forward to.
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First Known Use of heartbroken
1572
heartbroken Synonyms
Synonyms
bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched;
Antonyms
blissful, buoyant, buoyed, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat;
Near Antonyms
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical);
blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful;
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine;
animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy;
Related Words
aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, upset, worried;
disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited;
dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful;
agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping;
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen;
HEARTBROKEN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of heartbroken for English Language Learners
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: filled with great sadness
HEARTBROKEN Defined for Kids
Definition of heartbroken for Students
- … he ran away because he was heartbroken.
- —Beverly Cleary, Henry Huggins
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