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heartache

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of heartache

deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved

the heartache she felt when she saw the innocent victims of the war

Synonyms of heartache

affliction, anguish, dolefulness, dolor, grief, heartbreak, sorriness, sorrow, woe

Words Related to heartache

agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment

blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness

contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame

melancholia, self-pity

Near Antonyms of heartache

gaiety (also gayety), gayness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness

hopefulness, optimism, sunniness

content, contentedness, contentment

Antonyms of heartache

blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, delight, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, pleasure, rapture, rapturousness

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