heavy-hearted

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heavy-hearted

adjective more heavy-hearted · most heavy-hearted

idiomatic sad, melancholic. The mourners left the funeral heavy-hearted and silent.
Similar: miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen

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@misc{heavy_hearted_2026,
  title = {heavy-hearted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/heavy-hearted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}