Sorrowful vs Heartbreaking - What's the difference?
sorrowful | heartbreaking | Related terms |
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
Sorrowful is a related term of heartbreaking.
As adjectives the difference between sorrowful and heartbreaking
is that sorrowful is of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught while heartbreaking is that causes great grief, anguish or distress.As a noun heartbreaking is
the breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.sorrowful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- sorrowful accident
- She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.