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heart rending
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miserable, anguished |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, afflictive, calamitous, deplorable, dire, distressing, doleful, dolent, dolesome, dolorific, grievous, harrowing, heart-rending, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | cheery, happy, hopeful |
| Main Entry: | harrowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, frightening |
| Synonyms: | agonizing, alarming, chilling, distressing, disturbing, excruciating, heart-rending, heartbreaking, nerve-racking, painful, racking, soaring, tearing, terrifying, tormenting, torturing, torturous, traumatic |
| Antonyms: | calming, pleasant, pleasing, unfrightening |
| Main Entry: | heartbreaking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disappointing |
| Synonyms: | affecting, afflictive, agonizing, bitter, calamitous, cheerless, deplorable, dire, distressing, grievous, heart-rending, joyless, lamentable, moving, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, sad, touching, tragic, unfortunate |
| Antonyms: | exhilarating, heartwarming, joyous, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, distressing |
| Synonyms: | bad, calamitous, dark, dejecting, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, discomposing, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, dreary, funereal, grave, grievous, hapless, heart-rending, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, moving, oppressive, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, saddening, serious, shabby, sorry, tear-jerking, tearful, tragic, unhappy, unsatisfactory, upsetting, wretched |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | touching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affecting, moving emotionally |
| Synonyms: | compassionate, emotive, heart-rending, heartbreaking, impressive, melting, mind-blowing*, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, responsive, sad, stirring, stunning, sympathetic, tear-jerking, tender, wistful |
| Antonyms: | unaffecting, unmoving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tragic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | catastrophic, very bad |
| Synonyms: | adverse, anguished, appalling, awful, calamitous, cataclysmic, crushing, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate, destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn, grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heart-rending, heartbreaking, ill-fated, ill-starred, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful |
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