heartbreaker
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- noun
- /ˈhɑrtˌbreɪkər/
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rompecorazones
- She used to say that I was going to be a heartbreaker when I grew up.
- a real heartbreaker
- a little heartbreaker
- an old heartbreaker
Examples
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The notorious heartbreaker was spotted accompanying his pop star girlfriend around her hometown of Santa Barbara this week.
Blog text (18) -
Well, the fact that our Aunt Maria was a bit of a heartbreaker didn't help.
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You know how to be a heartbreaker, but you know how love goes.
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I expected him to be a heartbreaker when he grew up.
Fiction book (1994) -
What a heartbreaker Henry must have been.
Fiction book (1994) -
You really are a heartbreaker, aren't you?
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If only he could be the heartbreaker instead of the heartbroken.
Blog text (32) -
They're good people, and that boy Matthew, he is shaping up to be a real heartbreaker with the holiday girls that come here during the season.
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My Lord, look at the eyes on him—won't he be a heartbreaker in three or four years?
Fiction book (1993) -
Everyone warned me that he was a heartbreaker, charming but never serious about relationships.
Antonyms
How Heartbreaking
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Heartbreaker comes from heart and breaker, meaning 'heart' plus 'one who breaks'. It paints the image of someone who 'breaks' other people's hearts by not taking love seriously, so it means a person who causes deep romantic pain.