Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Struck to the heart; shocked with fear or grief; dismayed.
- Fixed in the heart; ineradicable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- adj. Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- adj. Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken.
Etymologies
- heart + struck (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I was never transported by visual beauty or heartstruck emotion.”
“I looked up at them, heartstruck, and I realized that my co-workers think I am dying.”
“Ah, the joy of the heartstruck boy whose ear was opened of love to hear!”
“-- The multitudes depart, heartstruck; spread the sad tidings.”
“Trip leaves Detroit News staffers heartstruck for Haiti”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘heartstruck’.
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Some Hearty Words
after one’s own h..., hearted, heart-shaped, heartily, hearty, heartfelt, heartwarming, heartsome, heartthrob, heartstrings, heart-stirring, heart-root and 121 more...
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Wordstruck
awestruck, horrorstruck, heartstruck, light-struck, lovestruck, moonstruck, pain-struck, panic-struck, stage-struck, star-struck, sun-struck, terror-struck and 3 more...
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