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.
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- 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.