Associations to the word «Heartrending»

Wiktionary

HEARTRENDING, adjective. That causes great grief, anguish or distress
HEARTRENDING, adjective. That elicits deep sympathy

Dictionary definition

HEARTRENDING, adjective. Causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter".

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus