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heartrending
This term evokes a visceral sense of emotional tearing or rupture, suggesting a grief so intense that it feels physically destructive to the heart. It is significantly more potent than words like sad or distressing, typically reserved for tragedies involving profound loss, innocence destroyed, or inescapable suffering.
Usage is generally restricted to formal or literary contexts. It often describes scenes, stories, or cries that trigger an immediate, overwhelming empathetic response in the observer, emphasizing the depth of the agony rather than a lingering state of melancholy.
Meanings
Examples
The sight of the abandoned puppy in the rain was truly heartrending.
It was a heartrending farewell as the soldiers marched away from their families.
I cannot bear to listen to that heartrending melody again.
The letter contained a heartrending plea for forgiveness.
The letter contained a heartrending plea for forgiveness.
The orphan's heartrending cry echoed through the empty halls of the castle.
Her story of loss was so heartrending that the entire room fell silent.
How can something be so heartrending and beautiful at the same time?