'Heartbreak' definitions:
Definition of 'heartbreak'
(from WordNet)
noun
Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) [syn: grief, heartache, heartbreak, brokenheartedness]
Definition of 'Heartbreak'
From: GCIDE
- Heartbreak \Heart"break`\ (-br[=a]k`), n. Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'heartbreak'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aching heart,
- affliction,
- agonizingness,
- agony,
- anguish,
- bale,
- bleeding heart,
- broken heart,
- brokenheartedness,
- care,
- desolateness,
- desolation,
- dole,
- excruciatingness,
- excruciation,
- grief,
- heartache,
- heartbrokenness,
- heartsickness,
- heartsoreness,
- regret,
- rue,
- torment,
- tormentingness,
- torture,
- torturousness,
- woe