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heartbreak

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of heartbreak

deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved

I understand the heartbreak you must feel over your grandmotherʼs death

Synonyms of heartbreak

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

Words Related to heartbreak

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 heartbreak

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

hopefulness, optimism, sunniness

content, contentedness, contentment

Antonyms of heartbreak

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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