heart-rending

adjective

1. causing great mental pain and sorrow

Derived Forms

• ˈheart-ˌrendingly, adverb

Related Words

• appalling
• awful
• calamitous
• cataclysmic
• deadly
• deplorable
• destructive
• dire
• disastrous
• dreadful
• fatal
• fateful
• grievous
• grim
• harrowing
• heartbreaking
• miserable
• painful
• pathetic
• pitiful