Heartrending
Heartrending adjective - Causing unhappiness.
Wailing and heartrending are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wailing" instead an adjective "Heartrending".
Wailing
Wailing adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.
Heartrending and wailing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Heartrending" instead an adjective "Wailing".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- keen and heartrending
- keen and wailing
- melancholy and heartrending
- melancholy and wailing
- dismal and heartrending
- dismal and wailing
- woeful and heartrending
- woeful and wailing
- sad and heartrending
- sad and wailing
- lamentable and heartrending
- lamentable and wailing
- sorrowful and heartrending
- sorrowful and wailing
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Wailing and Heartrending. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/heartrending/wailing
Heartrending & Wailing. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/heartrending/wailing>.
Wailing or Heartrending. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/heartrending/wailing.
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