heartsore

comparative more heartsore · superlative most heartsore

1. Heartsick.

   Synonyms: sorrowful, grief-stricken, grieving, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue

plural heartsores

1. countablerareuncountableHeartache, 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

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   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

   Synonyms: dejection, unhappiness, blueness, tristesse, mirthlessness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection