heartsick

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heartsick

adjective more heartsick · most heartsick

Very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore. I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.
Similar: miserable, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen

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@misc{heartsick_2026,
  title = {heartsick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/heartsick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}