heartache
/'hɑ:teik/
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Definition
- Noun:
- Intense sorrow caused by loss: A feeling of deep sadness, distress, or emotional pain, often resulting from a significant loss, disappointment, or difficult experience.
Usage
- "Heartache" is an uncountable noun used to describe a profound and often prolonged state of emotional suffering.
- It is typically used in contexts involving grief, deep disappointment, or emotional turmoil.
Examples
- Noun:
- The end of the long relationship caused her immense heartache.
- He tried to hide the heartache he felt after his friend moved away.
- The novel explores the heartache of war and separation.
Advanced Usage
- "To cause/give someone heartache": To be the source of someone's deep sorrow.
- His reckless decisions caused his family a great deal of heartache.
- "A heartache": While usually uncountable, it can occasionally be used with an indefinite article to refer to a specific instance or cause of sorrow.
- Losing the championship was a heartache he never forgot.
Variants and Related Words
- Heartbreak (n): Very similar to "heartache," often implying an overwhelming sorrow that feels crushing.
- The heartbreak of losing a parent is indescribable.
- Heartbroken (adj): Suffering from intense sorrow.
- She was heartbroken when her pet died.
Synonyms
- Grief: Deep sorrow, especially caused by someone's death.
- Anguish: Severe mental or physical pain or suffering.
- Sorrow: A feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune.
Related Idioms
- A broken heart: A state of intense sadness, especially after the end of a romantic relationship.
- He left her with a broken heart.
- To one's heart's content: As much as one wants. (Note: This idiom is about satisfaction, not sorrow, but shares the root word "heart").
- At the buffet, you can eat to your heart's content.
Noun
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)