English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd
English heartbroken
From heart + broken.
Pronunciation
Adjective
heartbroken (comparative more heartbroken, superlative most heartbroken)
- (idiomatic) Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.
- Synonyms: brokenhearted, inconsolable, forlorn, despairing, dejected, disconsolate, distraught, devastated, wretched, grief-stricken, discouraged
When he told me he didn't want to see me anymore, I was heartbroken.
Derived terms
Translations
suffering from grief
- Arabic: كَسِير الْقَلْب (kasīr al-qalb)
- Azerbaijani: qəlbiqırıq, ürəyi dağlı
- Bulgarian: съкрушен (bg) (sǎkrušen), угнетен (bg) (ugneten)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 心碎 (zh) (xīnsuì)
- Faroese: hjartabrotin
- Finnish: murheen murtama, surun murtama, murheissaan (adverb), murheellinen (fi)
- German: tief betrübt, untröstlich (de)
- Indonesian: patah hati (id)
- Irish: croíbhriste
- Malagasy: vaky fo
- Māori: pūkatokato, pākatokato, tarariki
- Polish: zrozpaczony (pl), ze złamanym sercem
- Swedish: hjärtekrossad (sv)
- Tagalog: nagluluksa
- Thai: ตรอมใจ, ช้ำใจ (th)
- Turkish: kalbi kırık (tr)
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