Word Study
heartbreak
CIDE DICTIONARY
heartbreak, n.
Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
heartbreak, n. overwhelming distress.
Derivative
heartbreaker n. heartbreaking adj. heartbroken adj.
THESAURUS
heartbreak
aching heart, affliction, agonizingness, agony, anguish, bale, bleeding heart, broken heart, brokenheartedness, care, desolateness, desolation, dole, excruciatingness, excruciation, grief, heartache, heartbrokenness, heartsickness, heartsoreness, regret, rue, torment, tormentingness, torture, torturousness, woeFor further exploring for "heartbreak" in Webster Dictionary Online