Word Meanings - HEARTSICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEARTSICK)

• Inconsolable
• Cheerless
• joyless
• spiritless
• melancholy
• gloomy
• disconsolate
• comfortless
• forlorn
• heartsick
• in dispair

Related words: (words related to HEARTSICK)

• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• FORLORNLY
  In a forlorn manner. Pollok.
• FORLORNNESS
  State of being forlorn. Boyle.
• DISCONSOLATE
  Disconsolateness. Barrow.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. 2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. 3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
• CHEERLESS
  Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser. Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
• JOYLESS
  Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. -- Joy"less*ly, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n. With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden. Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison. pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns
• HEARTSICK
  Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
• DISCONSOLATED
  Disconsolate. A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.
• DISPAIR
  To separate . I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.
• FORLORN
  forleósan ; pref. for- + leósan to lose; cf. D. verliezen to lose, G. verlieren, Sw. förlora, Dan. forloren, 1. Deserted abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.
• INCONSOLABLE
  Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate. Dryden. With inconsolable distress she griev'd, And from her cheek the rose of beauty fied. Falconer. -- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. --
• SPIRITLESS
  1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. 2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak. 3. Having no breath; extinct;
• RECOMFORTLESS
  Without comfort.