as in heartbroken
feeling unhappiness she was brokenhearted when the relationship ended

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Recent Examples of brokenhearted Baby, a brokenhearted cat who arrived at the Kerrville Pets Alive shelter not too long ago, left a stable home for a noisy kennel environment after losing the most important person in his life. Tj MacIas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Oct. 2025 One brokenhearted mother is one too many. Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 In the Netflix dramedy Too Much, a brokenhearted American, Jess, makes the move across the pond, inspired in part by daydreams of stately castles, rolling green hills and dashing gentlemen professing their ardent admiration. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025 What can be dizzying about the collection is the way traditional themes of Yiddish song and Hebrew liturgy — lyrics of resilience in the face of persecution, prayers of consolation for the brokenhearted, Lamentations read on Tisha B’Av — are recast with the Palestinians as their protagonists. Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025 If my random and unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation’s as a whole, then the debut of Donald Trump’s America has left some French triste — a bit sad, even brokenhearted, and also wary and vigilant. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025 And having already proven her scary-movie bona fides with last year’s Heretic, Thatcher does a lot of the heavy lifting here, and brings a real sense of brokenhearted bewilderment, existential dread, and eventually, an avenging-angel sense of righteousness to Iris. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025 Alice Hulme from Wellingborough, in Northamptonshire in the U.K. might not have gone through what Simpson has physiologically but there's no doubting she's brokenhearted following the death of her French Bulldog, Paddington. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025 At the top of the third episode, the Jackal assumes the role of some dead rich person’s brokenhearted progeny, visiting a high-end German funeral home to extract sensitive information from its computer system. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brokenhearted
Adjective
  • The conversation left her heartbroken.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Still heartbroken years after the split, Richard wears his anger and pain on his sleeve, but his only goal in life is to keep his daughter safe.
    Claire Franken, TVLine, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Matthiessen was born in 1927 to a pair of well-off, chronically depressed New Yorkers, people who were more likely to pour a stiff drink or take to their beds than to talk openly about their feelings.
    Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Roberts plays an unhappy American in Venice who is wooed by depressed, divorced, and done-with-love Allen in a variety of vaguely dishonest ways.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • How’s this for a sad old country tune?
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The results were a shock to the family, but one that was tinged with a sad realization.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • He was told by Talent Relations that the creative team was unhappy with him.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The now-37-year-old wasn’t unhappy with her job.
    Mike Winters, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Boise State generally made life miserable for Layne, the Idaho Vandals transfer who followed his coach, Jason Eck, from Moscow to Albuquerque.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Brandon Marsh, who produced after a miserable April, looks more like a strong-side platoon corner outfielder than an everyday center fielder.
    Matt Gelb, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The team is soliciting toenail donations (sorry, only from Canadians) to study a type of cancer that arises far from our feet–lung cancer.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Ozzy definitely didn’t want people to feel sorry for him.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gannon was upset after Demercado dropped the football before crossing the goal line on what should have been a 72-yard touchdown that would have put Arizona up 28-6 early in the fourth quarter.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Those numbers might flip if Mizzou springs the home upset.
    David Ubben, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The manager who is so often the picture of calm had reddened eyes, a hint of melancholy in his voice.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But about two-thirds of the way through, Roofman makes a quiet, almost imperceptible shift toward melancholy.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Brokenhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brokenhearted. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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