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HEARTBROKEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heartbroken mean?
• HEARTBROKEN (adjective)
The adjective HEARTBROKEN has 1 sense:
1. full of sorrow
Familiarity information: HEARTBROKEN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of sorrow
Synonyms:
brokenhearted; heartbroken; heartsick
Similar:
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
Context examples
The good fellow was heartbroken at it, and went out to the Terai tea planting, where I hear that he is doing well.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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