heavyhearted

adjective

ˈhe-vē-ˈhär-təd How to pronounce heavyhearted (audio)
Definition of heavyheartednext
as in sad
feeling unhappiness she was heavyhearted at losing the election, in which she had invested everything

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heavyhearted
  1. sad
  2. unhappy
  3. depressed
  4. heartbroken
  5. miserable
  6. melancholy
  7. sorry
  8. bad
Adjective
  • Family members and two of his lawyers say he was diagnosed with severe PTSD, a sad and rapid fall that ended in another explosion of violence.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Some potential sad news from the wild kingdom: the bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow, who have become online stars, may have lost one of their three eaglets amid a snowstorm.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of sad
Adjective
  • Some are unhappy with the people executing his vision for a smaller government. 2️⃣ Soccer showcase: The 2026 World Cup is still more than a year away, but there are already big concerns over whether the host country is ready.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The Penguins listed Bunting as a healthy scratch early this season because coaches were unhappy with his effort in games and practices.
    — Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of unhappy
Adjective
  • An exception is oil and gas executives, some of whom are buying while their shares are depressed.
    — John Dorfman, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Wood became depressed and died by suicide less than a year after the incident.
    — Newsweek, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of depressed
Adjective
  • But in a confessional, Stacey weeps while sympathizing with her heartbroken friend.
    — Abigail Adams, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Long Live Curt, a tribute to a close friend who died, could fit on a DJ set with the heartbroken singalongs of fellow Floridians like St. Petersburg’s Rod Wave and Jacksonville’s Lil Poppa.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of heartbroken
Adjective
  • Its economic position is parlous, its demographic situation is miserable and its military capacities have atrophied, and most of the chest-thumping about a revival of European power is empty talk and fantasy politics.
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But running — the exercise that can happen almost anywhere, any time and for very little expense — always felt miserable.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 2 Mar. 2025
Definition of miserable
Adjective
  • The Welsh quartet’s Dead Meat follow-up takes DNA from the Smiths’ melancholy exuberance, the Go-Betweens’ windswept gusto, and gung-ho London punk fervor to formulate a disempowered power-pop that spins insecurity and grief into bundles of melodic joy.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Luckily, Pattinson manages to keep things buoyant without diluting the late-capitalism metaphors or the melancholy existentialism.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of melancholy
Adjective
  • Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey are endgame…sorry, wrong team.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2025
  • My first visit to the Columbia was at its original location in Ybor City which, sorry Orlando, remains my favorite of the venues.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of sorry
Adjective
  • Jayson Tatum kept the Celtics in the game most of the night with 33 points, eight assists and eight rebounds, but Brown had one of his worst games of the year with just 10 points.
    — Jay King, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The market, however, believes the opposite: That a trade war is bad, is easy to lose, and could plunge the U.S. into an avoidable recession.
    — Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of bad
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