单词 | heartbroken |
释义 | heartbroken (once / 7553 pages) adj To be heartbroken is to be so sad that it feels like your heart has cracked inside your chest. You’d be heartbroken after a death, but you can also be heartbroken when you get dumped by your girlfriend or boyfriend. Waaaaaa. When someone is heartbroken, they are deeply sorrowful or distressed. Feeling heartbroken about a tragic accident or disaster is an understandable response, and being heartbroken after a romantic breakup is basically inevitable. The word heartbroken has been used since the late 1500s, and it comes from heartbreak, which is rooted in the Old English heorte, "heart" and also "spirit" or "soul." WORD FAMILYheartbroken: heartbrokenly USAGE EXAMPLES“I appreciate the fact that you guys are heartbroken,” he said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Q. Obviously, you got a heartbroken locker room. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) Understandably he was heartbroken as friends and family in the crowd tried to console him. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) adj full of sorrow Syn brokenhearted, heartsick sorrowful experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss |
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