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.