homesick
[hohm-sik]
- sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
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Origin of homesick
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Contemporary Examples
I also found that Hofbräu-Festzelt is the tent of choice for homesick English-speakers.
If she is at all uncomfortable or homesick, Lamb promises to take her to the nearest airport and send her back to her mom.
Who it helps: Homesick troops, many of them on their second, third, or even fourth deployment.
She was homesick, lonely, and longed to return to the movies—a proposal nixed by the Monegasques and her spouse.
Historical Examples
I wanted you to see the last of that town under a cloud, so you might not be homesick so soon.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
I guess, Tom, that we will be kept too busy to get homesick.
The Dare Boys of 1776Stephen Angus Cox
If I hadn't been just going I'd have been too homesick for words.
Jan and Her JobL. Allen Harker
He was going to be homesick for that cottage and its contents.
Galusha the MagnificentJoseph C. Lincoln
And now I'm going to bed—well, not homesick, you know, but just 'longing a lil bit for all.'
The ChristianHall Caine
homesick
- depressed or melancholy at being away from home and family
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Word Origin and History for homesick
adj.
1798, back-formation from homesickness.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper