Bro"ken-heart`ed (&?;), a. Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
She left her husband almost broken-hearted.
Macaulay.
Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe-begone; forlorn.
Bro"ken*ly, adv. In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language.
The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal.
Cudworth.
Bro"ken*ness, n. 1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.