All heartrending synonyms
heart·rend·ing
H h adj heartrending
- distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- sad — Systems Analysis Definition
- heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
- touching — affecting; moving; pathetic: a touching scene of farewell.
- tragic — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
- agonizing — Something that is agonizing causes you to feel great physical or mental pain.
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- doleful — sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
- moving — capable of or having movement: a moving object.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- pitiful — evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
adjective heartrending
- upsetting — overturned: an upset milk pail.
- poignant — keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
- painful — affected with, causing, or characterized by pain: a painful wound; a painful night; a painful memory.
- agonising — to suffer extreme pain or anguish; be in agony.
- excruciating — Intensely painful.
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.