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1
causing unhappiness
- couldn't bear to see the heartrending photos of victims of the famine
Synonyms for heartrending
- depressing,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- heartbreaking,
- melancholy,
- mournful,
- pathetic,
- sad,
- saddening,
- sorry,
- tearful,
- teary
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2
hard to accept or bear especially emotionally
- a heartrending choice between saving his daughter or his son
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3
of a kind to cause great distress
- heartrending memories of all the terrible crimes he'd committed and was sorry for now
Synonyms for heartrending
- deplorable,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- grievous,
- heartbreaking,
- lamentable,
- regrettable,
- tragic
- (also tragical),
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- woeful
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4
deserving of one's pity
- the heartrending sight of a starving child holding out his hands for food
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“Heartrending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartrending. Accessed 22 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of heartrending was in 1621
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