heartsick
pronunciation
How to pronounce heartsick in British English:
UK [ˈhɑ:tsɪk]
How to pronounce heartsick in American English:
US [ˈhɑrtsɪk]
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- Adjective:
- full of sorrow
- without or almost without hope
Word Origin
- heartsick (adj.)
- also heart-sick, "despondent," late 14c., from heart (n.) + sick (adj.). Old English heortseoc meant "ill from heart disease."
Example
- 1. I was heartsick about losing henry cisneros .
- 2. And me . Every time I saw or talked to mother I was heartsick .
- 3. Braitman is a spare , beautiful writer whose tone oscillates between hopeful and heartsick . Most often , she is melancholy .