Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. So deeply affected by love as to be unable to act normally.
- adj. Exhibiting a lover's yearning.
Wiktionary
Examples
“Some other translations, naturally, use the term lovesick instead.”
“CD and heard what she described as "lovesick puppy music.”
“‘For the lovesick is no remedy and alike are the madman and he.’”
“There was a subcategory of these women writers called the lovesick maidens: sixteen-year-old girls who were obsessed with the opera, The Peony Pavilion, caught cases of lovesickness like the heroine in the opera, and wrote beautiful poetry as they wasted away and died.”
“Little kids love to play grown up, it doesn't mean they are actually "lovesick" I can't imagine if my parents actually took our childish love seriously and all these years later we were still together.”
“i like both this picture and the other picture taken by Leslie Simitch you posted in your Top Ten #7 post. they both remind me of "blinding love", and of how one has the ability to ignore the rest of the world when one is in love. i feel kind of lovesick now.”
“Mr. LOUIE BUCK (Announcer): The Millers of Mother's Best flour bring you that lovesick blues boy, Hank Williams.”
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“Even Bill, who has long played the lovesick puppy, finally has a storyline that has drawn me in and injected him into the action in a more interesting way.”
“Caught in the middle are Anthony, a kindhearted, lovesick dogcatcher, and the object of his affection: a female werewolf who has abandoned her pack.”
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“Twilight changed that and made blood suckers, much to the chagrin of most horror fans, the domain of lovesick teenage girls.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lovesick’.
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A Love List
lovely, loveable, lovemaking, love-suit, loveless, love-hate, lovey, lovelorn, lovesick, love-sickness, lovefest, lovebird and 91 more...
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love phrases/words
how love is used
love work, love word, love-wildered, love-whispering, love visit, love verse, love veil, love-trick, love triangle, love tree, love-toy, love-touched and 273 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Duelistic
One-word oxymorons and dvandva (copulative compound (hot)) words with that contradictory, antonymic tension. Hyphens are fine, and neologisms are great, but I don't want any portmanteau words (I c...
bittersweet, push-pull, crosscurrent, featherweight, butthead, wholesome, firewater, homework, lovesick, nevermore, oxymoron, inside-out and 62 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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L is for La Ti Da
My L Words
la ti da, lady, lady killer, lagoon, lazybones, leapfrog, lederhosen, librarian, library, lickety-split, lion-hearted, lionhearted and 34 more...
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Self Descriptors
At one point or another each of these could have been used to describe me.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lovesick.
Prolagus Song quotation on lofty. Sep 28, 2008