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 or sorrowful

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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heart +‎ sick

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