Synonyms for heartbreaking
ˈhɑrtˌbreɪ kɪŋheart·break·ing

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1. grievous, heartbreaking, heartrendingadjective

   causing or marked by grief or anguish

   "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

   Synonyms:
   serious, life-threatening, atrocious, flagitious, severe, weighty, grave, monstrous, heartrending, grievous, dangerous, heavy

   Antonyms:
   joyful

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1. List of paraphrases for "heartbreaking":

   heartrending, heart-wrenching, upsetting

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1. Meir Sendor:

   We watched him grow, it's devastating. It's heartbreaking.

2. Van Haren:

   Physicians are on the front line, and what we're seeing is really heartbreaking : Children are healthy one day and really profoundly disabled in some cases the next, that's what frustrates and disappoints and saddens so many of us.

3. Nitza Colon:

   It was heartbreaking and really sad that this would happen for the second time and I said who would do such a thing, I mean what else can they burn in the building ? they already burned what we love so much, the inside, you know so what else I guess until they see it to the ground. I guess they won't let it go.

4. Tom McCarroll:

   It's just heartbreaking to come back and see this.

5. Philip Luther:

   What happened to Sahar Khodayari is heartbreaking, her only 'crime' was being a woman in a country where women face discrimination that is entrenched in law and plays out in the most horrific ways imaginable in every area of their lives, even sports.