as in heartbroken
feeling unhappiness felt heartsick over having to give up the family farm

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Recent Examples of heartsick Brolin plays a particularly heartsick parent coming for Garner and demanding answers about his missing daughter. Matt Donnelly, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025 As the titular Buffy, Gellar ably led her gang of monster-slayers (and heartsick teenagers) through seven seasons. Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2025 Culture Our Adored Cadavers Elizabeth Harper From the heartsick graverobbers of early Romantic literature to the latest gritty cable crime drama, the dead woman is never simply mourned and forgotten, but fully objectified and consumed. hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025 But viewers, particularly younger female ones, relished their bond — and were heartsick when the stars ended their real-life romance in 2007 after two years. Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024 The lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg was a punk-rock Jackson Browne, a pugilistic but ultimately heartsick poet with matinee-idol looks. Elizabeth Nelson, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023 Of equal importance, these heartsick lyrics were swathed in an atmospheric soundscape unlike any music Dylan had made before. David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023 The 49ers were heartsick about their young teammate’s injury. Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022 So, as Americans watched January 6, most of them were heartsick. CBS News, 24 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartsick
Adjective
  • Raymond Cheadle, Honesty’s great-uncle, told WUSA the family, including the girl’s dad, is heartbroken.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
  • Pepe has the power to make two heartbroken Islanders immediately forget about their old connections.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • That's the sad reality facing many dogs in the wider shelter system.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
  • The sad thing is, some people actually believe him.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • This gives the creditor an additional target to pursue and make very unhappy which can indirectly put pressure on the debtor to pay the judgment.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Circulation increased and the publication won two Pulitzer Prizes, but the owner, conservative Harry Guggenheim, was unhappy with the paper’s shift to the left, and he and Moyers were divided over the Vietnam War and the 1968 presidential election.
    Carmel Dagan, Variety, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Screenshot from a July 1 TikTok video of a depressed golden retriever waiting for her dog dad to return 1 1/2 years after a breakup.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • The law expands opportunity zones and extends tax benefits for investing in inner cities and economically depressed rural areas.
    Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • For now, this is DeVries on the job: intent but measured, teeth ready to clamp down on his tongue, establishing standards while also very much trying to make sure his team isn’t miserable from the beginning.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • His Panthers opened the season with two miserable losses, complete with booing from fans in the home opener, and the 23-year-old soon became the first quarterback selected No. 1 overall in the Super Bowl era to be benched for non-injury reasons.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • That, dear reader, is the sorry state of login security today.
    Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • For travelers who’d rather be safe than sorry, here’s how to check for bed bugs and how to avoid bringing them home.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • The pair's scenes are stunningly well-written, tasking the actors with navigating a whirlwind of anger, frustration, melancholy, and love in tight, uncomfortable spaces.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • The film’s odd tone — propulsive yet melancholy, cutting yet reflective — seems to embody the fact that nothing ever stays the same.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • But at the same time, local affordability concerns and overcrowding have skyrocketed, making the locals quite upset.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 8 July 2025
  • With less than 30 seconds to go in the game, and both teams tied at 77, Reese walked off the court visibly upset during a timeout.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025

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“Heartsick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartsick. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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