Crossword clues for broken-hearted
broken-hearted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broken-hearted \Bro"ken-heart`ed\, a. Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
She left her husband almost broken-hearted.
--Macaulay.
Syn: Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) (alternative spelling of brokenhearted English) Feeling depressed, despondent, or hopeless, especially over losing a love.
Usage examples of "broken-hearted".
There was a small but persistent trickle of broken-hearted lovers, both homophile and heterosexual.
But those two tumbled, broken-winded, and, indeed, broken-hearted old men had been, as an old author says, so emptied from vessel to vessel--they had had a life of such sloughs and stiff climbs--they had been in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness so often--that it was no wonder that their dandiacal companion walked on a little ahead of them.
Marzia, Zanetta's mother, indulged in a good deal of exclamation, and the father died broken-hearted.
You will boast of what you have a very good mind to do, play the broken-hearted lover to gain the sympathy of the credulous, whine to your mother about my tyranny, and give as an excuse for your chickenheartedness the fear that if you failed to respond to my hand on your bridle I should wreak my vengeance on your brothers!