heartsick

Speech parts

1. heartsick - Adjective

2. heartsick - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

despondent heartbroken brokenhearted down low blue crestfallen upset unhappy depressed sad sorry miserable stricken melancholy
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Antonyms

jolly blithe enchanted rapt canty comic
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Phrases with the word

less heartsick more heartsick

Examples

Perhaps 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

Close letter words and terms

heartseed heartsette heartshaped heartsickness heartsink heartsink patient