Synonyms of heart-rending
- 1 Syllable
- bad, dark
- 2 Syllables
- shabby, joyless, touching, poignant, grievous, grave, serious, sorry, hapless, tearful, wretched, tragic, dreary, moving, dismal
- 3 Syllables
- pitiable, pitiful, saddening, dejecting, pathetic, harrowing, heartbreaking, funereal, tear-jerking, upsetting, unhappy, depressing, disastrous, dolorous, lugubrious
- 4 Syllables
- oppressive, lachrymose, lamentable, melancholic, deplorable, discomposing, dolesome, dolorific, miserable, calamitous, regrettable, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting
- 6 Syllables
- unsatisfactory