Synonyms for Heart-rending:

• adj.

  • pitiful
  • forlorn
  ,
  • lamentable
  ,
  • miserable
  ,
  • pathetic
  ,
  • piteous
  ,
  • pitiable
  ,
  • pitiful
  ,
  • tear-jerking
  .
  • dolorous
  • afflicted
  ,
  • afflictive
  ,
  • calamitous
  ,
  • dire
  ,
  • lugubrious
  ,
  • woebegone
  .
  • grievous
  • Afflicting
  ,
  • appalling
  ,
  • atrocious
  ,
  • damaging
  ,
  • dismal
  ,
  • dreadful
  ,
  • flagrant
  ,
  • glaring
  ,
  • grave
  ,
  • harmful
  ,
  • heavy
  ,
  • heinous
  ,
  • hurtful
  ,
  • injurious
  ,
  • intolerable
  ,
  • monstrous
  ,
  • offensive
  ,
  • onerous
  ,
  • oppressive
  ,
  • outrageous
  ,
  • shameful
  ,
  • sharp
  ,
  • shocking
  ,
  • taxing
  ,
  • tough
  ,
  • troublesome
  ,
  • unbearable
  ,
  • villainous
  ,
  • weighty
  ,
  • wounding
  .
  • harrowing
  • racking
  ,
  • soaring
  ,
  • tearing
  ,
  • tormenting
  .
  • heartbreaking
  • cheerless
  ,
  • joyless
  ,
  • unfortunate
  .
  • sad
  • Dejecting
  ,
  • Discomposing
  ,
  • bad
  ,
  • dark
  ,
  • discouraging
  ,
  • disheartening
  ,
  • dispiriting
  ,
  • dreary
  ,
  • funereal
  ,
  • hapless
  ,
  • lachrymose
  ,
  • melancholic
  ,
  • saddening
  ,
  • serious
  ,
  • shabby
  ,
  • sorry
  ,
  • unhappy
  ,
  • unsatisfactory
  .
  • touching
  • compassionate
  ,
  • melting
  ,
  • mind-blowing
  ,
  • responsive
  ,
  • stunning
  ,
  • sympathetic
  ,
  • wistful
  .
  • tragic
  • adverse
  ,
  • awful
  ,
  • cataclysmic
  ,
  • crushing
  ,
  • deadly
  ,
  • deathly
  ,
  • desolate
  ,
  • destructive
  ,
  • fatal
  ,
  • fateful
  ,
  • grim
  ,
  • ill-fated
  ,
  • ruinous
  ,
  • terrible
  .

• Other synonyms:

•
• moving
,
• sad
.

• Other relevant words:

• Impassionate
,
• affecting
,
• affective
,
• agonizing
,
• alarming
,
• bitter
,
• blue
,
• chilling
,
• compelling
,
• daunting
,
• deplorable
,
• depressing
,
• disastrous
,
• disconcerting
,
• dismaying
,
• disquieting
,
• distressful
,
• distressing
,
• disturbing
,
• doleful
,
• dolorous
,
• effective
,
• emotional
,
• emotive
,
• exciting
,
• excruciating
,
• frightening
,
• grievous
,
• harrowing
,
• heart-breaking
,
• heartbreaking
,
• heartfelt
,
• horrible
,
• horrifying
,
• impassioned
,
• impelling
,
• impressive
,
• inspirational
,
• inspiring
,
• maudlin
,
• mawkish
,
• melancholy
,
• mournful
,
• nerve-racking
,
• nerve-wracking
,
• painful
,
• passionate
,
• persuasive
,
• plaintive
,
• poignant
,
• regrettable
,
• rueful
,
• sentimental
,
• sorrowful
,
• soul-stirring
,
• stirring
,
• striking
,
• tearful
,
• telling
,
• tender
,
• terrifying
,
• thrilling
,
• torturous
,
• touching
,
• traumatic
,
• unnerving
,
• upsetting
,
• vexing
,
• woeful
,
• worrisome
,
• worrying
,
• wretched
.
• catastrophic
• tragic
.
• Other relevant words (adjective):
• Dolent
,
• Dolesome
,
• Dolorific
,
• anguished
,
• egregious
,
• ill-starred
,
• ruthful
,
• torturing
.

What are the paraphrases for Heart-rending?

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    heart-wrenching.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    distressing, harrowing.

What are the hypernyms for Heart-rending?

• Other hypernyms:

  affecting, emotional, moving, poignant, sentimental, stirring, touching.