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Heartsick

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Profoundly disappointed; despondent.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Very despondent or sorrowful

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Sick at heart; deeply afflicted or depressed.

Indicating or expressive of heart-sickness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. without or almost without hope

adj. full of sorrow

Word Usage

"He probably wasn't even trying to be heroic; just someone who was sick and tired of all the violence going on in his country, heartsick from the student protests that ended in sheer violence the day before, frustrated and on his way home from grocery shopping or on the way to work."

Equivalent

hopeless sorrowful

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

depressed

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