heartrending's Usage Examples:

The letters become scarcer and scarcer with the decay of his faculties; at last, in 1740, comes one to his kind niece, Mrs Whiteway, of heartrending pathos: "I have been very miserable all night, and to-day extremely deaf and full of pain.

Italy, intellectually first among the peoples, was now politically and practically last; and nothing to her historian is more heartrending than to watch the gradual extinction of her spirit in this age of slavery.

Releasing heartache by writing sad love poems will free your mind of heartrending thoughts you continuously brood over.

My father talks of nothing but marches and countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a heartrending scene.

Synonyms:

sorrowful, heartbreaking, grievous,

Antonyms:

good, unimportant, noncritical, joyful,