1. heartsick - Adjective
2. heartsick - Adjective Satellite
Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPerhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. Gabriel García Márquez
[She] heard the bitter, heartsick words that made the fires of Hell burn cold and soothed the lost spirits under the world. Luís de Camões
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Many cities of men he saw and learned their minds, many pains he suffered, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home. Homer
You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish. Charles Baxter
despondent about his failure Source: Internet
too heartsick to fight back Source: Internet