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Synonyms for heartbreaking

The synonym for heartbreaking recorded in this bank is grievous, in the sense "causing or marked by grief or anguish". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for heartbreaking

grievousadjective, in the sense "causing or marked by grief or anguish"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and heartbreaking carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

causing or marked by grief or anguish

Her sigh was heartbreaking.

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The true synonym

grievous

Same sentence, swapped: Her sigh was grievous.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where heartbreaking stands in the sentence above.

consuming
excruciating
racking

Where heartbreaking turns up in the game

heartbreaking is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play heartbreaking

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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