Heartrending
Heartrending adjective - Causing unhappiness.
Usage example: couldn't bear to see the heartrending photos of victims of the famine
Mournful and heartrending are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mournful" instead an adjective "Heartrending".
Mournful
Mournful adjective - Causing unhappiness.
Usage example: the mournful death of a beloved entertainer
Heartrending and mournful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Heartrending" instead an adjective "Mournful".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- moving and heartrending
- moving and mournful
- pitiful and heartrending
- pitiful and mournful
- melancholy and heartrending
- melancholy and mournful
- dismal and heartrending
- dismal and mournful
- woeful and heartrending
- woeful and mournful
- painful and heartrending
- painful and mournful
- grievous and heartrending
- grievous and mournful
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Mournful and Heartrending. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/heartrending/mournful
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