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heartsore en · ADJ

Etymology

From heart + sore. Compare Saterland Frisian Haatseer (“heartache”), West Frisian hertsear (“heartache”), Dutch hartzeer (“heartache”), German Low German Hartsehr (“heartache”).

Meanings

  1. Heartsick.

Forms

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most heartsore Degree=Sup lexicographic
more heartsore Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

sorrow-ridden · sombre · plaintive · shattered · crestfallen · despondent · cheerless · saddened · inconsolable · spiritless · passionate · dismal · querulous · threnetical · woebegone · down · heartsick · atrabilious · sorrowful · down in the dumps · grief-stricken · sorrowful · dispirited · forlorn · tristful · unconsolable · blitheless · disheartened · grief-stricken · Plutonian · down in the mouth · miserable · elegiac · glum · saturnine · morose · jawfallen · chapfallen · moody · lugubrious · sorrowsome · heartsore · low · unhappy · grieving · threnetic · damp · depressed · melancholy · Plutonic · downsome · disconsolate · mournful · joyless · solemn · woe · sad · chopfallen · unlively · heavy-hearted · melancholic · disgruntled · sullen · ruthful · infelicitous · lumpish · bummed out · atrabiliary · downhearted · elegious · woeful · cut up · mopey · lachrymose · gloomy · downcast · grieving · wistful · dolesome · blue · doleful · wretched · triste · dejected · dull · uncheery · low-spirited · uncheerful · lamentful

heartsore en · NOUN

Etymology

From heart + sore. Compare Saterland Frisian Haatseer (“heartache”), West Frisian hertsear (“heartache”), Dutch hartzeer (“heartache”), German Low German Hartsehr (“heartache”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, rare, uncountable) Heartache, misery, grief.
    • They remain as eye-sores, and, I might say, heartsores; for God knows there is misery enough within those wretched portals. 1885, Alfred J. Cohen, Jonathan's home, by Alan Dale, page 104:
    • The witness says: That is true, I did say that through heartsore, because my Master beat the child, although it was not so much, and it is true that when I was so angry Master and Mistress prevented me. 1904, George McCall Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, page 278:

Forms

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heartsores Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

undelight · dejection · dejection · crestfallenness · blues · melancholy · tristesse · unhappiness · distress · unhappiness · sorrow · prosternation · regret · blueness · sorrowfulness · forlornness · infelicity · dolefulness · sadness · drearihead · wretchedness · despondency · ill-being · rue · woefare · misery · mirthless · melancholia · heartsore · grief · mishappiness · tristfulness · woe · depression · ruth · mourn · downheartedness