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UK
/hˈɑːtsɪk/
]
ADJECTIVE
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without or almost without hope
too heartsick to fight back
despondent about his failure - full of sorrow
How To Use heartsick In A Sentence
- These new works are a bold push forward, and they show the artist entering into the world of storytelling in the manner of a heartsick troubadour.
- Only the heel and rabid younger officers wanted to continue, and even they were heartsick.
- Though all the authors have spoken with other writers heartsick at poorly illustrated books, she's never been disappointed.
- In this case, not a lot has changed in the past millennium and a half, except that we're more likely to be wearied by tedium, ennui or heartsickness than by physical fatigue.
- And she felt heartsick and unable to understand the loss. Christianity Today
- Morrissey's heartsick legato croon is reassigned to four women and two men, who deliver anything from keening, primal unaccompanied wails to swing-era harmonies. Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives
- I'm absolutely heartsick at the never-ending stream of ghastly news and pictures from New Orleans.
- This, the Mariner's heartsick and acknowledged disgust for non-human life, showed that he had not yet learned his lesson nor completed the penance that Life-in-Death had prepared for him.
- What really makes them heartsick these days, however, is that they also have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues, particularly in Europe.
- Their world, as expressed in Welcome Interstate Managers, is one of heartsick teenagers, repressed office workers, the glories of high school football, and giddy suburban house parties.