Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Profoundly disappointed; despondent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sick at heart; deeply afflicted or depressed.
- Indicating or expressive of heart-sickness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very
despondent orsorrowful
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without or almost without hope
- adjective full of sorrow
Etymologies
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Examples
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He probably wasn't even trying to be heroic; just someone who was sick and tired of all the violence going on in his country, heartsick from the student protests that ended in sheer violence the day before, frustrated and on his way home from grocery shopping or on the way to work.
What WOULD Tiananmen Tank Man Do? fantasyecho 2008
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On his Facebook page Sunday night, after Manning had been detained, Lamo said he was "heartsick" for the specialist and his family.
Online contact says he turned in analyst who wanted to leak information 2010
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On his Facebook page Sunday night, after Manning had been detained, Lamo said he was "heartsick" for the specialist and his family.
Online contact says he turned in analyst who wanted to leak information 2010
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On his Facebook page Sunday night, after Manning had been detained, Lamo said he was "heartsick" for the specialist and his family.
Online contact says he turned in analyst who wanted to leak information 2010
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Tim Pawlenty R said Wednesday that he is "heartsick" over news that Jeremy Giefer, the sex offender that he pardoned 15 years after he had finished his prison sentence for statutory rape of a 14-year-old, is facing new allegations that he had sexually abused his own daughter more than 250 times both before and after he was exonerated in 2008.
Tim Pawlenty Defends Pardoning Sex Offender Who Faces New Allegations Of Raping His Own Daughter The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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On his Facebook page Sunday night, after Manning had been detained, Lamo said he was "heartsick" for the specialist and his family.
Online contact says he turned in analyst who wanted to leak information 2010
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On his Facebook page Sunday night, after Manning had been detained, Lamo said he was "heartsick" for the specialist and his family.
Online contact says he turned in analyst who wanted to leak information 2010
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Tim Pawlenty R said Wednesday that he is "heartsick" over news that Jeremy Giefer, the sex offender that he pardoned 15 years after he had finished his prison sentence for statutory rape of a 14-year-old, is facing new allegations that he had sexually abused his own daughter more than 250 times both before and after he was exonerated in 2008.
Tim Pawlenty Defends Pardoning Sex Offender Who Faces New Allegations Of Raping His Own Daughter The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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That's the book that recently made Republican Senator Gordon H. Smith of Oregon "heartsick" because it documents, on page after page, the retreat from empiricism and lack of professionalism (as well as failed oversight) in the making of the war.
Jay Rosen: Situation Grave and Deteriorating for the Agnewocracy 2008
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Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mona Williams says the company is "heartsick" over the incident but has "absolutely no evidence" that the connections were made intentionally.
Dumbest Moments.... 2007
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