What's the difference between heartbroken and inconsolable?

Heartbroken


Definition:

  • (a.) Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I've never been in a relationship and been heartbroken.
  • (2) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
  • (3) Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which organises the Oscars, has said she’s “heartbroken” by the lack of diversity and that AMPAS will be taking “dramatic steps” to adjust the balance of its membership to include more black and ethnic minority film-makers.
  • (4) She said: "We are absolutely heartbroken," and blamed his illness on a lifetime of cigarette smoking.
  • (5) Kaplinsky, the TV presenter who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, was said to have been “heartbroken” when private details of her wedding and honeymoon were published.
  • (6) "In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekohov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive."
  • (7) Without sounding like a cynical heartbroken niece, I welcome the Sports Charter and above all hope it will finally bring tolerance and change in one of the most loved games in the world.
  • (8) At this point in time our family is heartbroken, not able to grieve; his body is still in the mortuary all alone.
  • (9) Heartbroken, Paul refused to leave the Portland Place apartment, the place where his daughter passed away.
  • (10) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
  • (11) As someone who had a chance to talk to him in the past, I really feel heartbroken to see how he has been treated,” said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based Amnesty International activist.
  • (12) Yvette van Schalkwyk, a social worker and probation officer assigned to Pistorius after he shot dead his girlfriend, testified that he was sincerely heartbroken and sorry for what Reeva Steenkamp's parents were going through.
  • (13) Iwas heartbroken to read about the impact of child sexual abuse on the former footballers Andy Woodward , Steve Walters and Paul Stewart .
  • (14) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
  • (15) "Twenty heartbroken families lost a child in the Sandy Hook school shooting," Green says in the video.
  • (16) He said that Reed remained "heartbroken" by the incident, in which he lost friends and co-workers.
  • (17) Fastest in tournament history Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brazil fans were heartbroken after the 7-1 defeat by Germany
  • (18) "We’re heartbroken that something like this might have happened again," the president said.
  • (19) The German media have been more awed than heartbroken by the spectacular match between Liverpool and Dortmund: “4:3!
  • (20) He upset already-heartbroken volunteers and activists further with this statement.

Inconsolable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, common concerns of the newborn period (inconsolable crying, apnea, respiratory irregularities, jaundice, risk of infection, gastrointestinal problems, and acute eye disorders) are discussed in conjunction with aspects of the differential diagnosis and indications for referral.
  • (2) Corneal abrasion should be considered when inconsolable crying appears in an otherwise asymptomatic infant.
  • (3) One Tonibler arrived in Pristina after the show was over and is said to have been inconsolable; a few more were invited but did not appear.
  • (4) FTT children were perceived overall as more stressful, less adaptable, more inconsolable, and more unhappy than were healthy children.
  • (5) Even two weeks into the life of the coalition, the new business secretary looked inconsolable.
  • (6) That was until Geri left, and I cried inconsolably to Goodbye on repeat.
  • (7) Moments later Dann looked inconsolable after Dame N’Doye drifted inside from the right, met Jermain Defoe’s pass and, from around 25 yards, dispatched an apparently benign shot that took a hefty deflection off the centre-half’s boot before looping beyond the wrong-footed Hennessey.
  • (8) Inconsolable crying is a disturbing symptom in young infants.
  • (9) Westwood and some of his team-mates were inconsolable at full time but the future is bright at Hillsborough and when the pain of failing to jump the final fence subsides there will be cause to be proud and, maybe most important of all for the blue side of Sheffield, optimism at what is to follow.
  • (10) He would depart at the end inconsolable with tears stinging his eyes.
  • (11) Infants with colic (n = 65) were selected on the basis of the mother's report of a history of inconsolable crying lasting several hours each day.
  • (12) He’s not that kind of character [to be inconsolable]: he’s strong mentally and resolute when it comes to errors.
  • (13) The committee found that the evidence indicates a causal relation between DTP vaccine and anaphylaxis and between the pertussis component of DTP vaccine and extended periods of inconsolable crying or screaming.
  • (14) was Ally Carnwath’s take James Blake – Overgrown The London producer with the voice like a bruise remains perennially inconsolable here.
  • (15) He remained inconsolable and silent throughout, a lonely man in a crowded room.
  • (16) The collective narrative of the moment seemed to demand that Mandela look stricken, inconsolable – and mortal.
  • (17) The following is a case report of an infant who presented with inconsolable crying caused by a corneal abrasion.
  • (18) According to Collins German dictionary, the word means "hopeless, miserable, wretched or inconsolable" First it was the might of the emerging economic superpowers, Brazil and China.
  • (19) On Monday night on Sky News, Paul Murray was inconsolable.
  • (20) Yet the man in the dock was evidently inconsolable.

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