Dictionary

lovesick en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈlʌvsɪk/
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Etymology

From love + sick.

Meanings

1. Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of unrequited or unfulfilled love.
   • I'm sick of love / I hear the clock tick / This kind of love / I'm lovesick 1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:
   • And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon. 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:
2. Having an aching desire for one's beloved.

Forms

Deriveds

lovesickness · lovesickly

Relateds

limerence

Synonyms

fancy-sick

Translations (17)

fr énamouré (behaving oddly due to love) · tr kara sevdalı (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · mi wewehe (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · fr languissant (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · fi rakastunut (behaving oddly due to love) · ru томящийся от любви (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · es enculado (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · ar مريض العشق (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · fi ikävöivä (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · fi rakkaudesta sekaisin (behaving oddly due to love) · cmn 相思病 (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · de liebeskrank (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · es enamorado (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · ms angau (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · cmn 相思病 (behaving oddly due to love) · nl vlinders in je buik (having an aching desire for one's beloved) · es clavado (having an aching desire for one's beloved)