Thesaurus / heartbreaking
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Kaufman is so tightly associated with a kind of brain-twisting, darkly comical metaphysical and existential style that it’s possible to talk about movies being “Kaufman-esque,” meaning they’re weird, a bit confusing, and usually pretty heartbreaking.
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It felt to Frailey like a heartbreaking and incomplete way to end a years-long relationship.
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She said she found claims about the show’s environment to be “heartbreaking,” the trade publication said, citing unidentified sources.
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It’s a heartbreaking conceit, but it’s hard to plan for a future that doesn’t feel guaranteed.
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Personally, it is very frustrating and heartbreaking to hear their stories.
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Since January I have had two severe illnesses, my boy, and some heartbreaking anxiety over Fanny; and am only now convalescing.
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It is heartbreaking to see them die here like dogs, with no one to say Godspeed.
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He was interrupted by a cry, a single shrill, heartbreaking cry; and Philip fell senseless to the ground.
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It was a long, discouraging, heartbreaking struggle by which he gained his first vantage-ground.
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It is heartbreaking to see the thousands and thousands of bright-eyed boys and girls growing up amid such hopeless surroundings.
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WORDS RELATED TO HEARTBREAKING
- abject
- affecting
- afflicted
- arousing
- base
- beggarly
- cheap
- cheerless
- comfortless
- commiserative
- compassionate
- contemptible
- deplorable
- despicable
- dismal
- distressed
- distressing
- grievous
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- inadequate
- insignificant
- joyless
- lamentable
- low
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- poor
- rueful
- sad
- scurvy
- shabby
- sorrowful
- sorry
- stirring
- suffering
- tearful
- touching
- vile
- woeful
- worthless
- wretched
- 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
- afflicted
- agonized
- anguished
- appalling
- awful
- bad
- calamitous
- catastrophic
- cruel
- deplorable
- disappointing
- disastrous
- disconsolate
- disgraceful
- distressing
- doleful
- dreadful
- feeble
- gloomy
- grieving
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- heartsick
- hopeless
- inadequate
- lamentable
- lousy
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- plaintive
- poor
- racked
- rotten
- shocking
- sorrowful
- sorry
- tortured
- tragic
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- wretched
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