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

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