heartsick
adjEtymology From heart + sick.
1
Very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
- I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.2024 September 17, Lauren DePino, “I Sang at Hundreds of Funerals. This Is What I Learned About Grief.”, in The New York Times Magazine:
- Derived terms
- heartsickness