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Definition: Heartrending |
HeartrendingAdjective1. Causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heartrending" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: HeartrendingSynonyms: grievous (adj), heartbreaking (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Heartrending |
| English words defined with "heartrending": grievous ♦ heartbreaking. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heartrending (1993) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There, also, these sweet and heartrending words were said by a little foundling that the convent was rearing through charity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Heartrending" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heartrending" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "heartrending"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpirtcopëtues (heartbreaking), dëshpërues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفطر القلب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сърцераздирателен (heartbreaking, piteous), съкрушителен (knockdown, overpowering, overwhelming, sledgehammer, smashing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 伤心. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | usedaví, srdcervoucí (heartbreaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui fend le c"ur, déchirant (heartbreaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπαραξικάρδιοσ (heartbreaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyayat hati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 労わしい (pitiful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いたわしい (pitiful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비통한 (heartbroken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | hjerteskjærende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eartrendinghay тяжелый (clunky, difficile, grave, grievous, grinding, hammerblow, hammer-blow, hard, heart-rending, heavy, leaden, lumping, ponderous, rough, rugged, severe, sopor, stodgy, weighty, wrenching), душераздирающий (bloodcurdling, hair-raising, heartbreaking, heart-rending, shrill). (various references) srceparajući (heart rending, heartbreaking, heart-breaking). (various references) hjärtslitande. (various references) yürekler acısı (lamentable), yürek parçalayıcı (harrowing, heartbreaking, pathetic). (various references) нестямний (amok, amuck, boisterous, furious, rampageous, rampant), несамовитий (amok, amuck, delirious, ecstatic, frantic, heartbreaking, irresponsible, non compos, outrageous, passionate, phrenetic, violent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "heartrending": heartrendingly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "heartrending" (pronounced 'Heart"rend`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Diesinking, Direct-acting, Do-nothing, Double-acting, Double-tonguing, Downfalling, Downlying, Drawfiling, Dressmaking, Easy-going, Farseeing, Fault-finding, Findfaulting, Fireprrofing, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, Gold-beating, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, Heart-eating, Heartswelling, Highflying, High-reaching, high-sounding, High-swelling, Home-coming, Home-dwelling, Home-speaking, Horseshoeing, housebreaking, housewarming, Ill-looking, Inbeaming, Inbeing, Inburning, Incensebreathing, ingrowing, Interviewing, Kiteflying, Knee-crooking, Know-nothing, Labor-saving, Lady-killing, Lammaking, Landlouping, Landowning, law-abiding, Lawgiving, leave-taking, life-giving, Life-saving, logrolling, Love-making, Manstealing, Merrymeeting, mischief-making, Moonshining, Nap-taking, Night-blooming, Night-faring, Nonslaveholding, Oathbreaking, Offscouring, Ongoing, On-looking, Outbreaking, Outcasting, Outlying, Outscouring, Pig-sticking, Pitfalling, Plain-dealing, Plant-eating, Playgoing, Railroading, Rush-bearing, seafaring, seagoing, Self-satisfying, Sharpshooting, Sheep-shearing, shipbuilding, shoemaking, shoplifting, shortcoming, Side-taking, Silk-stocking, Single-acting, slaveholding, Sleepwaking, sleepwalking, Snowshoeing, soothsaying, Stargasing, Steamboating, Steeplechasing, Stem-clasping, Stem-winding, Story-telling, Sweethearting, Tear-falling, Thanksgiving, thoroughgoing, timesaving, Top-draining, Topsoiling, Tufthunting, typewriting, Underbuilding, underclothing, Underdealing, Underfilling, Waterproofing, Water-standing, Wayfaring, Way-going, Weatherboarding, Welfaring, Well-being, Welldoing, Well-liking, Well-meaning, Wind-sucking, Wire-pulling, Wonder-working, Woolward-going, Wrongdoing. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: rehardening, rethreading. | |
-2 letters: heartening, ingathered, intergrade, interregna, retreading. | |
-3 letters: argentine, denigrate, deterring, endearing, engrained, entrained, entrainer, gratineed, grenadier, grenadine, hardening, herniated, inearthed, integrand, irredenta, reearning, regranted, rehearing, reheating, rendering, rereading, retarding, retearing, retrained, tangerine, tendering, threadier, threading. | |
-4 letters: adherent, adhering, antherid, antigene, derating, deringer, detainer, ditherer, earthier, earthing, endanger, entering, gardener, garnered, gartered, gathered, gatherer, gradient, gratinee, hardener, heartier, hearting, heritage, herniate, hinderer, indenter, inerrant, ingather, inherent, intender, interage, interned, interred, naething, neatherd, redating, regained, regainer, regather, regrated, rehanged, reharden, rehinged, retained, retainer, rethread, threader, treading, trendier, trending, trihedra. | |
-5 letters: adenine, adherer, aginner, airthed, angered, angrier, anteing, antigen, antired, arenite, darning, darting, deaning, dentine, denting, deraign, derange, dernier, detrain, diether, dragnet, drainer, dreeing, earning, earring, earthed, earthen, energid, engined, engrain, enraged, entrain, errhine, gahnite, gentian, girthed, gnarred, gradine, grained, grainer, grandee, grander, granite, grannie, granted, grantee, granter, gratine, greaten, greater, greenth, grenade, grinder, grinned, grinner, hagride, hairnet, handier, handing, hanting, hardier, harried, headier, heading, hearing, hearted, hearten, heating, hedgier, heeding, hennaed, henting, herding, herniae, herried, herring, inearth, ingrate, inhered, integer, interne, nardine, nearing, needing, negated, negater, neighed, neither, nerdier, randier, rangier, ranting, readier, reading, reagent, rearing, reeding, reginae, regnant, regrade, regrant, regrate, regrind, reheard, rehinge, rehired, reigned, reinter, rending, rentier, renting, retinae, retired, retrain, retread, retried, righted, righter, ringent, tangier, tardier, tarried, tarring, tearier, tearing, tending, terrain, terrane, terrine, thenage, therein, thinned, thinner, tireder, trading, trained, trainee, trainer, treader, treeing, triaged. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-r-r-t" | |
+2 letters: heartrendingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 72 74 72 65 6E 64 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- .-. - .-. . -. -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a r t r e n d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0072 0074 0072 0065 006E 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427167848684718070758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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