Word Meanings - BROKEN-HEARTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BROKEN-HEARTED)

• Heartbroken
• Disconsolate
• broken-hearted
• woe-begone
• inconsolable

Related words: (words related to BROKEN-HEARTED)

• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• WOE-BEGONE
  Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.
• DISCONSOLATED
  Disconsolate. A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.
• BROKEN-HEARTED
  Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.
• INCONSOLABLE
  Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate. Dryden. With inconsolable distress she griev'd, And from her cheek the rose of beauty fied. Falconer. -- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. --
• DISCONSOLATE
  Disconsolateness. Barrow.