heartsore

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heartsore

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From heart + sore. Compare Saterland Frisian Haatseer (“heartache”), West Frisian hertsear (“heartache”), Dutch hartzeer (“heartache”), German Low German Hartsehr (“heartache”).

adjective more heartsore · most heartsore

Heartsick.
Similar: sorrowful, grief-stricken, grieving, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen

noun heartsores

countable, rare, uncountable Heartache, misery, grief. They remain as eye-sores, and, I might say, heartsores; for God knows there is misery enough within those wretched portals.
Similar: dejection, unhappiness, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, crestfallenness, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness

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@misc{heartsore_2026,
  title = {heartsore},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/heartsore},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}