heartrending | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Adjective heartrending has 1 sense

grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending - causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)