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synonyms for heartbreak

  • agony
  • anguish
  • bitterness
  • despair
  • grief
  • heartache
  • pain
  • remorse
  • sorrow
  • suffering
  • torment
  • woe
  • affliction
  • bale
  • care
  • desolation
  • distress
  • heartsickness
  • regret
  • rue
  • torture
  • broken heart
  • heavy heart
On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heartbreak, such as: agony, anguish, bitterness, despair, grief, and heartache.

antonyms for heartbreak

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  • cheer
  • comfort
  • contentment
  • happiness
  • health
  • joy
  • joyfulness
  • relief
  • love
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How to use heartbreak in a sentence

The heartbreak isn’t from him not playing football anymore or anything like that.
TEN MONTHS AFTER HIS DEATH, DAVID FORNEY’S NUMBER WILL BE WORN AGAIN AT THE ARMY-NAVY GAMEKAREEM COPELANDDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POST
To be a physician that has spent your whole life taking care of patients, holding patients’ hands when they’re at the end of their life, crying with the patient’s family, and to not be able to be with my father was the biggest heartbreak of all.
HEAR FROM PEOPLE TAKING ACTION AGAINST COVID-19MARYN MCKENNADECEMBER 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Think of Harrison Ford finding love with a replicant in Blade Runner or Joaquin Phoenix mending his heartbreak with a digital assistant in Her.
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His grief is filtered through the breakup metaphor — a concept he borrowed from Qawwali music and Sufi poetry, both of which are “very big” on analogies of estrangement and heartbreak — but no less palpable.
RIZ AHMED KNOWS HIS WORTH. WITH THE GUT-WRENCHING ‘SOUND OF METAL,’ HE ENSURES YOU DO, TOO.SONIA RAODECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POST
“It’s a heartbreak looking for a place to happen,” says Lise Buyer, the founder of Glass V Group, a consultancy that provides advice about public listing.
GLUT OF SPACS WILL LEAD TO ‘HEARTBREAK,’ SAY IPO EXPERTSJEFFDECEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNE
There were plenty of failures, a lot of heartbreak and profanity, an occasional injury—but they kept going, and they got there.
SECURITYPOUL WILLIAM ANDERSON
Somewhere in the bushes, someone began to play a kazoo, adding the final touch of melancholy and heartbreak to the music.
PAGAN PASSIONSGORDON RANDALL GARRETT
Im sorry, said Lois, wondering at her power of suspending a heartbreak, but we havent a drop left in the house.
THE WAYFARERSMARY STEWART CUTTING
We need not consider how much struggle and heartbreak had gone into meeting that schedule.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONPOUL WILLIAM ANDERSON
David M. Osborne backed a new self-binder, lost a million, and died of heartbreak.
THE ROMANCE OF THE REAPERHERBERT NEWTON CASSON
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WORDS RELATED TO HEARTBREAK

  • affliction
  • agony
  • distress
  • dole
  • dolor
  • grief
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • hurting
  • misery
  • pang
  • rue
  • sorrow
  • suffering
  • throe
  • torment
  • torture
  • woe
  • wretchedness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.