heavy heart
Grief-laden emotional state
A heavy heart is one weighed down by sadness, grief, or dread.
The phrase appears most often with with: With a heavy heart, she signed the divorce papers.
It suggests reluctance or sorrow about something that must be done or endured.
The opposite is a light heart.
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- sadnessState of emotional pain
- poignancyPiercing emotional quality
- weltschmerzMelancholy at existence itself
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
mourning · grief · burden · laden · heartbreak · bitter tears · despondency · desolation · hopelessness · wistfulness · lament · dejection · yearning · regret · with regret · letting go · anguish · saying goodbye
- body idiomsheartstrings, gut feeling, gut instinct, backbone, hard head
- mood idiomsbad mood, black mood, dark mood, foul mood, in a mood
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
- suffering metaphorsdrowning, bottomless pit, chains, cage, trapped
- Heart Termsheartbeat, heartbreak
- expressionsexpression, I love you, phrase, idioms, thank you
psychological weight/burden
heavy heartlight heart
lightheartedness · carefree spirit · peace of mind · ease · relief