Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BROKEN-HEARTED
a.[break and heart. ] Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
BROKEN-HEARTED
BROKEN-HEARTED Bro "ken-heart `ed, a.
Defn: Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.
Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.
New American Oxford Dictionary
broken-hearted
bro ken-heart ed |ˈˌbroʊkən ˈˌhɑrdəd | ▶adjective overwhelmed by grief or disappointment.
Oxford Dictionary
broken-hearted
broken-hearted ▶adjective overwhelmed by grief or disappointment. DERIVATIVES broken-heartedness noun
American Oxford Thesaurus
broken-hearted
broken-hearted adjective his broken-hearted family: heartbroken, grief-stricken, desolate, devastated, despondent, inconsolable, disconsolate, miserable, depressed, melancholy, wretched, sorrowful, forlorn, heavy-hearted, woeful, doleful, downcast, woebegone, sad, down; informal down in /at the mouth; literary heartsick. ANTONYMS overjoyed.
Oxford Thesaurus
broken-hearted
broken-hearted adjective the boy was broken-hearted and inconsolable. See heartbroken.
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