as in heartbroken
feeling unhappiness
felt heartsick over having to give up the family farm
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Recent Examples of heartsick
Imagine talking to your most heartsick friend, the one who simply cannot get over her ex.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2026
Harris has taken the religious patina of Alice Walker’s tale—most chiefly the Christian God, to whom Celie writes her heartsick journal entries after she is separated from her beloved sister, Nettie, by the monstrous Pa and the vindictive Mister—and dirties it, wisely.
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Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Perhaps too good for his own good, Lucas moves among jangling psychedelia, heartsick pastorals, and radio-ready rock, as if forever searching for a way out of his attic studio or his parents’ spare bedroom.
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Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
23 May 2026
The word that comes to mind when watching a de Araújo feature is heartsick.
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
Brolin plays a particularly heartsick parent coming for Garner and demanding answers about his missing daughter.
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Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2025
As the titular Buffy, Gellar ably led her gang of monster-slayers (and heartsick teenagers) through seven seasons.
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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.
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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.
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Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Feb. 2024
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
9 June 2026
Harris has taken the religious patina of Alice Walker’s tale—most chiefly the Christian God, to whom Celie writes her heartsick journal entries after she is separated from her beloved sister, Nettie, by the monstrous Pa and the vindictive Mister—and dirties it, wisely.
—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Perhaps too good for his own good, Lucas moves among jangling psychedelia, heartsick pastorals, and radio-ready rock, as if forever searching for a way out of his attic studio or his parents’ spare bedroom.
—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
23 May 2026
The word that comes to mind when watching a de Araújo feature is heartsick.
—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartsick
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Was, still heartbroken about the loss of his friend and bandmate, recalled their first time on tour.
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Prince Harry was heartbroken after arriving at Eton College in 1998.
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Day broke, bathing everything in light, and so great was the vitality of the early-morning sun that even the unhappy city seemed to smile a wan, sad smile.
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But SpringHill really took off in 2020, two seasons into James’ Lakers term, when The SpringHill Company went public (and the Lakers won the sad COVID-bubble NBA Championship).
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The decade was an unhappy panorama of inflation, gas shortages, military humiliation, and revelations of political corruption.
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On Tuesday, Paul urged Americans who are unhappy with the justices’ ruling to support his proposal.
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The pseudonymous title character, a depressed, drunken, belligerent twenty-six-year-old advice columnist, has no real hardships of his own and is cursed by doubt.
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Supergirl is a story about a depressed, super-powered woman who is pulled out of her bar-hopping to help other people and find her purpose.
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Remarkably, La Roja have failed to win a knockout round match in their last three World Cups, but expect Lamine Yamal and company to end that miserable run today.
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But the American job market has chugged along, continuing to rebound from a miserable 2025.
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Much has been made of this World Cup’s mandatory commercial—sorry, hydration—breaks, which have paused action, even during indoor or rain-soaked matches.
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Back home that night, dues paid to god, the women slathered their faces with turmeric cream and went to bed, bitter-smelling, sorry for themselves on that night as every night.
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That melancholy was discovered by the Romantics, and, in its coarser variation, was equivalent to despair.
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The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues.
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Play was held up after some upset fans threw things onto the field after the controversial offside call.
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Usually, when the USMNT enters the knockout stage in the World Cup, they’re considered the underdogs, hoping to be scrappy to force an upset.
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“Heartsick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartsick. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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