heartsick

/'hɑ:tsik/

Thân thiện

He felt heartsick after reading the farewell letter.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling great sadness, disappointment, or emotional distress: "Heartsick" describes a state of being deeply sorrowful, despondent, or emotionally worn down, often due to a loss, failure, or unfulfilled hope.
   • Physically affected by emotional sorrow: The term can also imply that the emotional pain is so intense it causes a feeling of physical illness or weariness.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She was heartsick after hearing the tragic news.
  • The team was heartsick following their last-minute defeat in the championship.
  • He felt heartsick and hopeless about ever finding a solution.

Advanced Usage

• "Heartsick with longing": experiencing deep sorrow due to intense yearning or desire for something unattainable.
  • The old letters made her heartsick with longing for her homeland.
• "Heartsick over": feeling profound sadness or regret about a specific situation or event.
  • He was heartsick over the misunderstanding that ended their friendship.

Variants and Related Words

• Heartsickness (n): The state or feeling of being heartsick; deep melancholy.
  • A profound heartsickness settled over him after the loss.
• Heartsore (adj): An older, nearly synonymous term meaning deeply grieved or afflicted in spirit.

Synonyms

• Despondent: In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
• Despairing: Showing the loss of all hope.
• Dejected: Sad and depressed; dispirited.
• Forlorn: Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.
• Woeful: Characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery.

Antonyms

• Elated: Ecstatically happy.
• Joyful: Feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness.
• Hopeful: Feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Sick at heart: An idiom with a very similar meaning to "heartsick," describing deep sorrow or distress.
  • The failed peace talks left the diplomats sick at heart.
• Heavy heart: A phrase denoting a state of sadness or sorrow.
  • She announced her resignation with a heavy heart.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. without or almost without hope
   • despondent about his failure
   • too heartsick to fight back
2. full of sorrow

Từ đồng nghĩa

• despondent
• brokenhearted
• heartbroken