heartstopping
adjective
heartstopping is an adjective meaning “Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-E-A-R-T-S-T-O-P-P-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does heartstopping mean?
adjective
- 1
Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of heartstopping
- more heartstopping comparative
- most heartstopping superlative
- heart-stopping
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is heartstopping?
Heartstopping appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Heartstopping in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | de infarto, infartante |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does heartstopping come from?
From heart + stopping.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).