homesick

[ hohm-sik ]

adjective

1. sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.

homesick

/ ˈhəʊmˌsɪk /

adjective

1. depressed or melancholy at being away from home and family

Derived Forms

• ˈhomeˌsickness, noun

Other Words From

• homesickness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of homesick¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; home + sick ¹

Example Sentences

So, when he moved away from Southern California for work and grew homesick, tinga was the first recipe he learned how to cook.

From Washington Post

In May 1965, Brian Robson was miserably homesick after working nearly a year in Melbourne, Australia, but he couldn’t afford a plane ticket home to Wales.

From Washington Post

There’s the distance he feels from his lonely, homesick-for-the-old-world mother.

From Washington Post

When Shawn was on the Olympic circuit, she says coffee was an easy cure for her homesick blues.

From Fortune

The soldiers smiled back at the friendly locals—they all felt homesick and could not wait to see their families.

From The Daily Beast

I also found that Hofbräu-Festzelt is the tent of choice for homesick English-speakers.

From The Daily Beast

If she is at all uncomfortable or homesick, Lamb promises to take her to the nearest airport and send her back to her mom.

From The Daily Beast

She was placed in a dorm with other first-year students, and for her entire first week of school she was very homesick.

From The Daily Beast

Who it helps: Homesick troops, many of them on their second, third, or even fourth deployment.

From The Daily Beast

He never returned, but died in England on June 3, 1780, an unhappy and a homesick exile from the country which he loved.

From Project Gutenberg

Would you ever dream that four children could be homesick in such a beautiful house as Mr. Cordyce's?

From Project Gutenberg

The letters that found their way across the sea were not homesick in these days, and Ikey's mother ceased to worry about him.

From Project Gutenberg

My heart reaches out in homesick yearning for the notes of our dear Northern songsters.

From Project Gutenberg

Kit could only think of a lost, homesick dog begging for the scent of the trail to his own kennel.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• lonely
• wistful