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heavy-hearted
[ hev-ee-hahr-tid ]
/ ËhÉv iËhÉr tÉȘd /
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adjective
sorrowful; melancholy; dejected.
OTHER WORDS FOR heavy-hearted
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Origin of heavy-hearted
Middle English word dating back to 1350â1400
OTHER WORDS FROM heavy-hearted
heav·y-heart·ed·ly, adverbheav·y-heart·ed·ness, nounWords nearby heavy-hearted
heavy eye,
heavy-footed,
heavy going,
heavy-handed,
heavy hand, with a,
heavy-hearted,
heavy heart, with a,
heavy hitter,
heavy hydrogen,
heavy ion,
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Words related to heavy-hearted
depressed,
doleful,
melancholic,
melancholy,
sad,
sorrowful,
unhappy,
blue,
cast-down,
crestfallen,
dejected,
desolate,
despondent,
destroyed,
disconsolate,
dispirited,
down,
down and out,
downcast,
downhearted How to use heavy-hearted in a sentence
The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
âThere is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,â agrees Father Javier.
The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.
âJSwipe is currently under heavy load,â flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.
Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.
Heavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.
The keen resentment had faded from his face, but an immense reproach was thereâa heavy, helpless, appealing reproach.
British Dictionary definitions for heavy-hearted
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