heartbreakingly
In crushing fashion
Heartbreakingly intensifies something that causes deep emotional pain or sorrow: The film was heartbreakingly beautiful.
It often describes things that are poignant precisely because of their sadness—a heartbreakingly honest confession, a heartbreakingly brief reunion.
The word suggests the subject doesn't just make you sad but moves you profoundly.
In a mourning way
- achinglyWith painful intensity
- gut-wrenchinglyCausing intense emotional distress
- mournfullyIn a grieving way
- tearfullyWhile shedding tears
poignantly · painfully · tragically · devastatingly · woefully · bitterly · plaintively · heartrending
sorrowfully
In a mourning way
- achinglyWith painful intensity
- gut-wrenchinglyCausing intense emotional distress
- mournfullyIn a grieving way
tearfully · poignantly · painfully · tragically · devastatingly · woefully · bitterly · plaintively · heartrending · wistfully
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- bereavementState following loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
heartache · tragedy · parting · farewell · goodbye · separation · death · memorial · eulogy · widowed
poignant
Evoking keen emotion
- bittersweetWistful yet warm
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- elegiacSorrowfully commemorative
sublime · ethereal · fleeting · transient · ephemeral · evocative · haunting · wistful · tender · delicate
heartbreakinglyjoyfully
With great pleasure
heartwarmingly · heartwarming · comfortingly · upliftingly · delightfully
heartbreakinglyunremarkably
In an ordinary manner
blandly · indifferently · matter-of-factly · prosaically · unemotionally