English Explanatory Dictionary

heartsore

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Heartsick.
noun
  1. Heartache, misery, grief.

Word forms

heartsore more heartsore most heartsore heartsores

Etymology

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

Synonyms

sorrowful grief-stricken grieving atrabiliary atrabilious blitheless dispirited blue bummed out chapfallen cheerless chopfallen crestfallen cut up damp dejected depressed despondent disgruntled disconsolate disheartened dismal doleful dolesome down down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted downsome dull elegiac elegious forlorn gloomy glum heavy-hearted heartsore heartsick inconsolable infelicitous jawfallen joyless lachrymose lamentful low low-spirited lugubrious lumpish melancholic melancholy miserable moody mopey morose mournful passionate plaintive Plutonian Plutonic
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