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Heartbreaking vs Frustrating - What's the difference?

heartbreaking | frustrating |

As adjectives the difference between heartbreaking and frustrating

is that heartbreaking is that causes great grief, anguish or distress while frustrating is discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty.

As a noun heartbreaking

is the breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.

As a verb frustrating is

present participle of lang=en.

heartbreaking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
  • Derived terms

    * heartbreakingly * heartbreakingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.
  • frustrating

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • discouraging; causing annoyance or anger by excessive difficulty
  • *{{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 27 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).}}

    Derived terms

    * frustratingly

    Verb

    (head)
  • Synonyms

    * discouraging