heartbroken
pronunciation
How to pronounce heartbroken in British English:
UK [ˈhɑ:tbrəʊkən]
How to pronounce heartbroken in American English:
US [ˈhɑrtbroʊkən]
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- Adjective:
- full of sorrow
Word Origin
- heartbroken (adj.)
- also heart-broken, "deeply grieved," 1580s, past participle formation from heartbreak. Related: Heartbrokenly; heartbrokenness.
Example
- 1. Jen is not heartbroken over pics of their latest foreign baby .
- 2. Sitting near me were an angry boy and his heartbroken mother .
- 3. The poet in yuan dynasty said that sunset heartbroken people in the end of the world .
- 4. Any woman who 's been left heartbroken will testify , comfort eating is all too easy .
- 5. A female love of starr 's had moved away and she was heartbroken .