Synonyms of heartsick

heartsick

adjective

ˈhärt-ˌsik 

as in heartbroken

feeling unhappiness

felt heartsick over having to give up the family farm

Synonyms & Similar Words

• heartbroken
• sad
• unhappy
• depressed
• miserable
• sorry
• melancholy
• upset
• worried
• bad
• disappointed
• sorrowful
• hopeless
• uneasy
• mournful
• dejected
• troubled
• inconsolable
• disconsolate
• despondent
• saddened
• crestfallen
• brokenhearted
• forlorn
• woebegone
• downcast
• doleful
• melancholic
• glum
• distressed
• joyless
• gloomy
• wretched
• woeful
• hangdog
• blue
• droopy
• suicidal
• downhearted
• depressing
• heartsore
• heavyhearted
• discouraged
• low-spirited
• down
• despairing
• aggrieved
• grieving
• down in the mouth
• low
• tearful
• dispirited
• disheartened
• sunk
• cast down
• weeping
• anguished
• regretful
• unquiet
• bleak
• somber
• desolate
• plaintive
• lachrymose
• agonized
• lugubrious
• morbid
• morose
• dolorous
• rueful
• wailing
• sullen
• cheerless
• gray
• elegiac
• dark
• comfortless
• dismal
• dreary
• drear
• black
• saturnine
• funereal
• darkening
• murky

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• happy
• glad
• joyful
• joyous
• jubilant
• cheerful
• ecstatic
• gleeful
• delighted
• blissful
• cheery
• exultant
• buoyed
• exuberant
• buoyant
• enraptured
• upbeat
• euphoric
• rapturous
• excited
• merry
• sunny
• hopeful
• optimistic
• rhapsodic
• jolly
• chipper
• jovial
• blithe
• mirthful
• elated
• exhilarated
• overjoyed
• jocular
• gladdened
• rosy
• sanguine
• jocose
• gladsome
• entranced
• spirited
• energetic
• blithesome
• jocund
• vivacious
• encouraged
• satisfied
• vital
• thrilled
• smiling
• lively
• perky
• pleased
• frisky
• content
• laughing
• gratified
• careless
• animated
• sprightly
• lightsome
• jaunty
• unconcerned
• bouncing
• peppy
• heartened
• carefree
• springy
• grinning
• zippy
• cavalier
• easygoing
• lighthearted
• insouciant
• boon
• sprightful
• beaming
• happy-go-lucky
• devil-may-care

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of heartsick

Imagine talking to your most heartsick friend, the one who simply cannot get over her ex. — 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