HEARTACHE


Meaning of HEARTACHE in English

heart ‧ ache /ˈhɑːteɪk $ ˈhɑːrt-/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable]

a strong feeling of great sadness and anxiety

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THESAURUS

▪ sadness a sad feeling, caused especially when a happy time is ending, or when you feel sorry about someone else’s unhappiness:

Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss.

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I noticed a little sadness in her eyes.

▪ unhappiness the unhappy feeling you have when you are in a very difficult or unpleasant situation, especially when this lasts for a long time:

After years of unhappiness, she finally decided to leave him.

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She was a tense, nervous young woman, whose deep unhappiness was obvious to all those around her.

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You do not know how much pain and unhappiness you have caused.

▪ sorrow written the feeling of being very sad, especially because someone has died or because terrible things have happened to you:

There seemed to be nowhere to go to be alone with her sorrow.

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His heart was filled with great sorrow after her death.

▪ misery great unhappiness, caused especially by living or working in very bad conditions:

The cold weather is with us again and the misery of the homeless is increasing.

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Thousands of families were destined to a life of misery.

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The misery and pain he caused were, for him, merely a measure of his success.

▪ despair a feeling of great unhappiness, because very bad things have happened and you have no hope that anything will change:

At the end of the month, she still had no job and was tired, frustrated, and close to despair.

▪ grief great sadness that you feel when someone you love has died:

He was overcome with grief when his wife died.

▪ heartache a strong feeling of great sadness, especially because you miss someone you love:

She remembered the heartache of the first Christmas spent away from her sons.

▪ depression a mental illness that makes someone feel so unhappy that they have no energy or hope for the future, and they cannot live a normal life:

He slipped into a depression in which he hardly ate or even left his room.

▪ despondency formal a feeling of being very unhappy and without hope:

She felt useless, and this contributed to her despondency.

▪ melancholy literary a feeling of sadness, that you feel even though there is no particular reason for it:

Modigliani expressed his melancholy through his painting.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.